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FarmVille Issues Update on “lllegal” Sheep & Pig Breeding
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FarmVille issued a statement a few minutes ago on the official FarmVille Blog addressing “illegal” Sheep and Pig breeding.
If you currently have “illegal” Sheep or Pigs obtained or “adopted” from your Facebook News Feed (or from a neighbor) such as Flashers, which have not yet been released into the FarmVille Market, these animals will no longer breed to produce the same type offspring. For now, this means that specific patterns such as Star and Flasher Sheep will no longer produce Star or Flasher offspring. However, if and when illegal breeds are actually officially released in FarmVille, then these animals will be able to breed again.
The types of patterned Sheep and Pigs that are allowed include the following:
- Sheep: Plain, Striped, and Spotted
- Pigs: Plain and Spotted
Please understand that most of your neighbors who have these “illegal” animals on their farms did not obtain them through hacks nor or they cheating. There is no need to start a FarmVille witch hunt! The spreading of these unreleased animals was so rampant due to legitimate breeding, sharing, and adopting.
Since so many farmers have these “illegal” animals on their farms in which they obtained through legitimate methods, they will be able to keep them and will not be punished. What FarmVille is doing is trying to prevent continued breeding of animals that they did not intentionally release. They are in the process of patching the original methods (hacks) of how these animals were obtained before they were then bred and shared.
From FarmVille:
“Howdy farmers!
We wanted to give an update to everyone regarding certain kinds of disallowed sheep that have been available in FarmVille as well as a similar issue that appeared with pigs this past weekend. Certain types of sheep and pig colors/patterns not yet released have been improperly distributed in FarmVille; we are currently going through the process of making sure this practice stops.
The steps that we have taken are:
- The methods by which players were able to breed unreleased sheep and pig colors and patterns have been closed.
- Players who bred sheep and pigs using illicit methods have had their animals revert to their original base colors and no patterns.
- Pigs and sheep acquired from feed posts (but at some point were generated using illicit methods) will get to retain their unusual colors and patterns. However, attempts to breed with these pigs or sheep will result in default colors and no additional pattern inheritance. Should we release these additional colors or patterns legitimately then players will be able to breed that animal in the appropriate, correct manner. This is not an implication that you or your neighbors have done something wrong. This is a breeding restriction of colors and patterns that as of yet have not intended to be released.
So what’s currently allowed to breed and what’s not?
- Most current colors are allowed but the “flashing” colors are definitely not.
- Currently Allowed Sheep Patterns: Plain, Spotted, Striped
- Currently Allowed Pig Patterns: Plain, Spotted
Again, the intention is to stop the distribution of colors and patterns that are not currently intended but not to punish our players who have acquired these animals legitimately. When we do release these colors or patterns, you’ll be able to breed with them just as intended.
Happy Farming!”
(Source: Official FarmVille Blog)
What do you think about this, FarmVille Freaks? Do you have “illegal” Sheep or Pigs on your farm? How does this change your view about breeding?
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
How do you spell dumb a–….Z y n g a! What a bunch of morons..they must spend the day trying to figure out ways to make people not want to play their games.. Unbelievable!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
Doesn’t Zynga really understand how stuff like this makes the game more interesting. Everybody can breed ****ing white and boring sheep. They are too busy staring at their wallet and not realizing that people were buying potion and bottles when they couldn’t collect enough, just to breed!
Zynga sucks donkey balls to say it nicely!
I for one will not be spending any more of my hard earned money on this game. I’ll spend what I still have in FV$, but they for sure aren’t getting any more. I’ve spent hundreds of real $$ in the past nearly 2 years.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Yes they have shot themselves, people won’t pay for potions to grow boring sheep. The funky designs and colours made it fun and interesting. The sheep Zynga provided are boring. Maybe they should hire the people that came up with the cool, interesting patterns. Or if they wanted money for patterns they should have released them quicker.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
No more stars on thars? Funny, ’cause those actually look legit — unlike the masked and flashing ones, which have always looked a little fuzzy, a little off, a little not-quite-Zynga-polished.
However, I’m alright with them disallowing what were essentially bootlegged/hacked animals (those last two quite obviously). I imagine game stability/security could be threatened by that sort of thing.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
wow the only reason i was even getting to my farm was to try to get a patterned pig..since you just told me i cant..why bother to play at all? the game is boring to people who have made it all the way past 100….just saying!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
I don’t know how players can breed “Illegal” sheep. We put in two colored sheep and who’s fault is it that they come out flashing or multi-colored? Zynga runs this game not the players. How could the player have bred what you are calling “illegal” if you didn’t have them somewhere in your system? I don’t understand why Zynga is making a fuss over this. We are spending money to breed and buy these animals. As far as the pigs, I can’t even breed a patterned pig. How was the first “illigal” pig bred. It could only have come from Zynga.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
!@#@$# Zynga. You can quote me.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
They want every little dime they can get which is their right but they release crap rams at terrible prices and then expect us to be exited about a little stripe. They handled this all wrong. They care more about the dollars then a little customer service.
Now they will take the patterns people made and sell them and expect everyone to run buy them. I have spent more money on this game then I like to admit but I have spent my last dollar I promise that.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
SIMPLE REALLY ZYNGA!!!!! RELEASE THE PIGS AND SHEEP THAT WERE ILLEGALLY USED TO START ALL THIS CRAP AND MAKE UR PLAYERS HAPPY!!!! We were having fun breeding those ones and now u’ve left us with plain boring ones… give us something we can get excited about and maybe HACKERS wouldnt have to hand our fun to us!!!! JUST SAYING……..
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Mad….thats all I can say
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
I TOTALLY AGREE…They take so frakin long to release anything to us. The charge out the nose for a stupid sheep or pig. The take all the fun outta the game. We’ve been having blast for days now with the Piggys !!!! Now we can breed only solid and spotted pigs…How STUPID..can ZYNGA BE,,???
Why bother collecting Potion or even Making it in our crafting buildings..? I was finally having fun again on my farm since it’s been nearly 2 weeks since I’ve been able to breed a single frakin sheep….All I get is I have 100 ….so totally NOT.
They won’t get another penny out of anyone in my household anymore,. And there are 3 of us here who play and spend….ooops SPENT money on farmville
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Ha, ppl who spend real money on a game that’s FREE to play and/or whine when their hax get taken away… need to step away from teh computar, take a walk around the neighborhood, and GET A GRIP
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Yea, I have been reading these posts about the so called illegal sheep, before the pig breeding came out they said they had put a stop to them being distributed but apparently it has happened again with the pigs…
Its like a friggin soap opera.
I haven’t noticed any change in the breeding of my sheep, the babies still come out as expected, even with my flashers and color changing sheep.
SO WHATEVER people.
Like someone said above me, keep doing things like making the cool stuff only available with farmvile cash and upping the price of trees and going on ad nauseum about the illegal sheep and pigs just gives me more reasons to drop Farmville and stick with Farmtown.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Zynga messes up and the consumer pays for it…Nice Zynga…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
It’s not a bad idea, but I think they should at least offer interesting Rams, and Boars to purchase. That green Boar they gave us should be Bacon!! Then they had the nerve to put a wig on it..
Looks like my Great Uncle Fred!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Agreed Jaana! Just a bunch of bull..White sheep and tan pigs..Really Zynga? Idiots!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
I for one am not going to buy any of their plain boring pigs and sheep,so i wont need their potion.You’re right they shot themselves in the foot,people love the flashy.neon etc sheep and pigs and they will buy potions to make them but how many booger colored sheep and pigs can ya have on your farm before ya stop breeding them?Why dont they just let their designer learn from this and create some themselves.It sucks and im done breeding
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Whats up with them??????
Can’t breed flashing sheep or pigs????.. it’s a lot more fun breeding them than just our plain old pigs and sheep…. if we wanted plain.. i’m sure we could go to a petting zoo to see one… Just my opinion tho … let’s hear it for flashing sheep… they are beautiful colors too… Have a nice day
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
This is about the stupedist thing i have ever seen or heard of… why shut a door that is already open? i personally have spent a lot of money on my sheep & pig breeding… I’m very happy that someone was able to breed me “flashing or color changing” sheep. It just adds a little more excitement to the game. I have shared these animals with many friends (they were all excited to get the animals)! It has just been another way to meet new people & create good will among farmers. Please don’t take this away from us.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Zynga should hire the guys that produced the “illicit” sheep and have them design even more patterns, flash and dazzle! I haven’t had so much fun in Farmville in a long time…..I have a few more mastery’s to complete and then I might have to give up Farmville and play another game….
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
I agree with Jaana and Theresa T , they were making money .ppl would buy potionand bottles just to finish off a nice sheep . now they want us to have the boring ugly plain colours no way i am notbothering to collect or grow potion in my pub they can get stuffed now. they care about how much money they can make and dont care that it takes the fun out of it for us , if everybody went on strike for one day they would feel it and maybe rethink things but knowing them its doubtful
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
what are you belly-aching about. You live in a CAPITALIST society. There is a bottom line and you are part of it. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY IS WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND… take it or…leave the game a go to live in Cuba
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
THEY ARE A BUNCH OF CONTROL FREAKS
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Bull Sheep!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
What a load of crap. I was given my first ‘illegal’ piglet on Saturday and I have bred about 20 for friends who have bred more for their friends. I think the whole ‘illegal’ sheep and pigs is a zynga money making scheme. The amount of money spent on $FV when the illegal sheep came out would have been incredible. I honestly don’t believe that a hack could get into zynga’s computer system and create the flashing/camo/masked/star sheep that we got without zynga being able to shut it down in a nanosecond. As for the piglets, well, they are out there too now. My wall has been covered in them for 3 days. Zynga is doing everything in its power to alienate players and get them to leave. I spend REAL money on this game. I employ zynga to ensure the game plays correctly and well (yeh, a joke). I am the customer and I demand customer service. Something zynga fails to remember. No REAL money coming in, means no zynga! Get over it zynga, and just fix all the problems that you have NEVER ironed out since the game started.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
@ Theresa & Jaana…. I couldn’t agree more. They must not pay attention to all the FC being bought to supply the potions for the breeding of the flashers and changers. I don’t know about pig breeding, as I have yet to produce any of those, but I have bought plenty of potion with FC for my sheep.
I will abide by their rules and not breed any odd sheep until they’re available. I also, won’t be spending any more real $$$ for potion any more.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
i play farmville, frontierville,and cityville daily and have spent alot of cash but if this is what they think makes us happy they are total MORONS and i will take my toys and go to work instead of playing with them
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
Well, Zynga have officially managed to push me into doing something I’ve been meaning to do for the last 6 months: QUIT the game. Over the last year or so Zynga have concentrated their efforts on obtaining the almighty dollar at the expense of it’s loyal players and believe me this is nothing but more of the same. This time I fear they have shot themselves in the foot bigtime.
Truly the game stopped being fun over a year ago when Zynga really started pushing players to spend real money on virtual items – all the while calling their software ‘beta’ and with good reason – it was and still is buggy as heck. But the addition of sheep breeding and different colors and patterns (no matter how they were obtained) brought an element of REAL fun back to the game. But like all things fun Zynga saw this and panicked – desperately scrambling to find a way to control this element so that they could charge for it later. Even going so far as to call these bred animal patterns ‘illegal’ – implying danger to the uneducated computer user.
Oh the colors and patterns will be back – mark my words – but at a price premium and level of communist control that Zynga and their pocketbooks will be comfortable with.
Unfortunately the game will continue without this loyal player of almost two years,
http://www.facebook.com/jason.holton
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
I would never spend real cash on a game like farmville, patience is Key, you can always get enough potions and bottles. Juss play the game.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
After reading some more comments, I wanted to add…I think these so called illegal sheep and pigs were probably intended for eventual release but someone (possibly an employee or X employee) released them therefore making it impossible for Zynga to make money off them.
Sort of like how they charge Farmville cash for horses that have babies that don’t grow up to look at all like they did as babies or like their Mother, the same with the cows.
Its amazing how Farmtown doesn’t have issues like this. AND you can go and work on other peoples farms to make coins. Its a nice social game…not so much bitching by the people who created it AND more opportunities to make Farmtown cash without spending real money for it.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Honestly…I understand putting a stop to breeding by altering code/programming…..whatever it is. Zynga is a business after all. If you (John/Jane Q Player) owned it you wouldn’t appreciate people mucking around in your profits, would you?
While I do have some of the sheep in question, I am neither offended nor outraged by this announcement. It is a game…just a game.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Have to agree that Zynga is being short-sighted about this – the “illegal” sheepwere what generated excitement and income to Zynga. Forget the 30 FC sheep, Zynga – that would have been a one-shot moneymaker. Focus on the players spending FC on potions and bottles (which I have), as well as spending a LOT more time on FV. Cha-ching, Zynga – the longer we play, the more opportunity you have to make money off of us. Now I won’t bother with pigs, and probably not with my sheep anymore. You missed the boat this time, Zynga – think this through again.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
wow, REALLY???? ZYNGA- come on, your devs are the ones who messed up writing the code so that players could get what you call “ILLEGAL” sheep/pigs. THE PLAYERS DIDNT WRITE THE CODE, SO WHY ARE WE BEING PUNISHED???? because ZYNGA forgot to charge us players A RIDICULOUS amount of real money to play a GAME???? that’s your fault zynga, not ours. maybe if you people would concentrate on fixing KNOWN issues, instead of punishing your players, people would enjoy this game more. stop charging such outrageous amounts of REAL money for all the cool stuff. that would help make your players happy. also, don’t punish us, the players, for something that YOU didn’t foresee when YOUR PAID DEVELOPERS wrote the code.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
^^^ Agreed! This is such a bummer. I really liked all the weird, original-looking sheep people were getting. This is going to go right back to “boring” and I won’t be excited to play FV or check the feeds for cool new sheep anymore.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Zynga you stink who wants to breed ugly boring pigs and sheep.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
It is all about money $$$ the illegal pigs are already in the game but not released yet, some people who are very good with coding find the codes needed to make them and do so, Then they spread like crazy until we all have or have seen one. Then Zynga gets mad because they can’t sell the sheep if we already have them, I see their point but it is kinda late now to take them all back, the game is going backwards and if they do not keep it going forwards and fresh many will not play. That’s a wrap LOL
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Well I guess that is another game that Zynga must screw up!! The only reason that I have continued to play was the excitement of breeding the special lambs and piglets!! Guess what..take your game and shove it I will no longer be playing…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Absolutely ridiculous. Guess it’s truly time to quit this blankity blank game. Finally start having great fun and sharing super animals with friends and they screw it up. What are they thinking. What is illegal about it? I GIVE UP Maybe we should strike.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
So they can stop the illegal breeding of animals, that they can charge big FV$ for, but they can’t block the cheater bot programs -maybe they should have just put daily limits on how many flashing sheep we can breed. ;(
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
zynga you are so unbelievable. Why cant you just leave us alone? What all about controll because someone came up with better patterns than you? Guess I will just get all my friends to boycott your game until you decide to leave us alone and let us breed what we wont.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I’m sorry, what that says to me is that the alledged HACKERS have more imagination than the “think tank” at ZYNGA!!! I personally think ZYNGA’s goal is to just see how PISSED off they can make their players!!! The only reason this is happening is because of the “genealogy” quest that ZYNGA planned and with the “illegal” breeding…it totally screws up the “game play” of that quest…which, frankly seems quite boring to me anyway…half the fun of the breeding process was to see all the really cool animal patterns and colors!!! But ZYNGA must take away our fun…shame, shame!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
This is freaking ridiculous. If they are only allowing a few colors and patterns, the you will be breeding the same stupid color over and over! What fun is that?????
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I could have swore I read they already had a program in place to stop illegal breeding……so Come on they must have a leak……someone is getting paid good….and Its costing the players crazy the way prices have gone up! and now trees
and I purchased a spotted pig wont breed nothing but solid pigs I have emailed cust care NO RESPONSE,,,,,,,,,NOW I CANT HELP I ADOPTED A LAMB OR A PIG THAT WAS ILLEGAL! SO WHY DONT THEY GO AFTER WHOEVER RELEASED THEM INSTEAD OF TAKING OUR PIGS BACK ?????????? I KNOW I SURE WONT PURCHASE THAT UGLY NEON PIG ……..NOT AFTER THEY TAKE IT FROM MY FARM THATS A JOKE.!!!!!!!! THEY NEED TO RELEASE THE COOL PIGS NOT THE ONES THAT ARE SPOTTED AND DONT EVEN WORK……..I AM A CSR FOR A MAJOR FORTUNE 500 COMPANY……..I AM PROUD TO BE WORKING THERE AND BE HELD TO SUCH HIGHER STANDARDS THAN FV CUST CARE…….THEY ARE A JOKE……….SOMETIMES U GET A RESPONSE AND SOMETIMES U DONT BUT THE BEST WAY IS THRU LIVE CHAT AND THEN THEY TAKE STUFF FROM YOUR FARM AND NEVER ADVISE U OF IT…………I’D LOVE FOR JP POWERS & ASSOC…….TO RATE THIER CUST CARE REPS LIKE THEY DO US……… FV IS JUST MAKING PLAYER ANGRY AGAIN, YOU DEAL WITH YOUR INSIDE PROBLEMS AND DONT PUNISH THE PEOPLE WHO PLAY AND USE YOUR PRODUCTS ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS,,,,,,,, THATS WHERE YOUR MONEY COMES FROM AND IF THEY ARENT HAPPY THEY WONT BE PLAYING OR SPENDING ANY MONEY,,,,,,,,ALOT OF PLAYERS QUIT WITH THE GIFT LIMIT
AND I KNOW I DONT SNAG LOST GIFTS EMAILED CUST CARE NEVER HEARD A WORK DO U THINK I GOT ALL THOSE DELIVERY BOXES BACK……HAHA I GOT NOTHING AS USUAL!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Your games go out of sync every 5 friggin seconds, lose hundreds of gifts requests and never returned, impose a limitation on taking of gifts legitmently of fair players yet you still allow the cheat sites to have advantage over us, and you choose to now take those….The day when i quit will be soon….not fun anymore.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
It’s amazing !!!! That a company that for whatever reason released sheep and pigs,or got hacked. Gave us all cool pets to breed. Even if you all were hacked there are people out there that paid real money to breed these. so if you think about it this little mistake just made you a lot of money. We all had more fun with this APP. then any other out there. Now you are gonna turn around and PUNISH US!!!, when you all are making a killing with the players and the money. NOT SMART!!! you guys just messed up bad. All the dedicated people on here are not gonna stand for this.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Zynga’s FV programmers are torqued because players bred better animals than they “Photoshopped”!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
They sure know how to take the fun out of the games….they let us start making potion…now for what?? Boring Sheep & Pigs…way to go Zygna this is sure 1 good way of getting people to stop playing Farmville all together…it’s supposed to be fun…it’s not anymore…it’s not only the Sheep & Pig breeding issues but all the other things that you limit us to as well…I could say a lot more but I’ll leave it at this for tonight ~~
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Try to breed now and they won’t come out right. I’m pissed cuz I was waiting to get a camo flasher. I have and still have all the other ones I just can’t breed them anymore cuz they come out white or black. THIS SUCKS….
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
I think it is not fair we spend alot of money and u never give anyone a bonus u should send people more farm cash then a dollar forreal that is a joke and as far as the sheep breedin and the pig breedin it is borin and not fair that we have plain borin ones and we spend so much were do u get the flashin and stars on pigs i would luv to have one so i can have alittle fun with it myself they r makin tis game a joke and i really enjoyed it come one make it alitte more fair to everyone
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
About time. It’s ridiculous the @#$%ing lengths people go to to cheat in this game. Don’t blame Zynga for this one, people. Blame the cheaters and hackers out there. I’m glad to see them putting their foot down on this.
JT
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
I can’t believe this. If anyone needs to be greatful, its FarmVille for all the loyal players like us that spend hours and hours on it each day. If this is how they want to play the game and take away our fun and just stop the sheep and pig breeding thats been going, then I think I’m gonna spend my time elsewhere. How, after all the real money we’ve spent buying FarmCash do they think they can just turn around and just do whatever they want and not see what the “players” want. I mean we are still playing this game and this latest move of there’s is just too much. I think if it stays this way, with the limit on collecting items, limit on adoptions and now the ban on flashing sheep/ pigs, etc. is just a game with too many rules and not enough fun. They should be trying to please us, instead of making us frustrated in the game all the time.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
Wow! How were any of us to know that these were not legitimate sheep? I never ever imagined that when I adopted a flasher sheep from my neighbor that it was not a ‘legal’ sheep. I got it from my wall not some cheat website. Talk about micromanaging a game….
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
People, Zynga does this, because as much as everyone b*tches, stupid people keep funneling money into their pockets. Why do you think they just upped the price of trees from 5 cash to 7. Because people will pay that. I’ve never spent a dime on any Zynga’s games (and yes, they’re all like this), and I’m so glad I haven’t. I’ve purchased cash from other games, because while they’re not as spectacular as Zynga’s games, they’re also fair and not filled with bullsh*t, like restrictions and constant loading problems. Don’t expect anything from Zynga, and you won’t be let down. And if you spend money on their cash, know that you’re saying “what you do is okay, and we’re happy with the way you treat us” — no matter what you SAY, it’s your MONEY that TALKS.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:21 pm
This has got to be the stupidest thing they have done, I did nothing but plant and create potions and breed and posted for potion every 4 hours and bought bottle along with everyone else and now I breed to get what a white sheep seriously?? NO thanks I wonder how many people drop off playing because it went back to boring, boring, boring I will go back to Frontierville and bingo anything but FV. What’s the stupid point, I mean FV finally had something other games didn’t offer and then take it away grow the hell up and let people breed what they already have and be creative and spend their money and time on the game. so done with FV I quit it once before and came back because they livened up and now i’t's back to BORING snoooooze
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
i truly don’t see what the fuss is all about you act like people have commited a crime mercy instead of taking away our sheep and pig’s turning them back to what you call normal isn’t fair for alot of us who put endless hours and time collecting potions making potions and breeding the right way it’s not our fault you people are so slow in putting cute little sheep and pigs out what is the hold up with helping all of us get some cool sheep and as far as the british sheep it doesn’t do a thing i bought one and when i breed it nothing fancy comes from it.so tell us when do you plan on letting everyone have different coloured sheep and flashing and special ones. and i don’t mean getting everyone to spend more hard earned money buying them with fv cash enough already with that you need to give everyone’s pocket book a rest alot of us here can’t afford to purchase your fv cash and because of that we miss out on alot of nice things so please consider this when you want to put nice items in the market to buy.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Farmtown sounds good right about now. I just breed two pigs or sheep, your game gives me whatever baby it wants to. You are the one making the illegal animals. I have no controll of what animal I get.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Yea, I just checked and my sheep don’t produce color changing sheep or ones with stars anymore. I have to say I think your shooting yourself in the foot because that addition was the only thing that made the game much fun for me.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Ok, first of all its a game, if you make it interesting people will play, if you say “you can’t have this till I give it to you” then you will lose players. Put things out faster make it interesting and CHEAPER!!!!! For those of us with lots of coin and not much FV cash make it accessible to us, thats probably where your “illegal” sheep and pigs came from someone who couldn’t afford 20 or 30 FV cash. Before Zynga started this breeding they said the possibilites were ‘ENDLESS’ well what happened? Limit of 100 and no imagination, come on Zynga think of the players, ya know?
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
i too love the idea of the sheep breeding and the piglet i too have spent money to buy farmville cards in order to but potions, bushels to make potions as well as bottles to feed lambs and piglet with excitement to see what i had made and now we have to go back to plain and normal instead of cute, and different. really i know zygna has made enough money to let us have these few perks for free
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
the people pissed off about this shouldn’t gripe here but gripe to ZYNGA!!! they run farmville and only those who kiss their collective ass contact.. there is a link on the support, any email, ANYTHING as long as you place ‘forward to correct division’ it will be sent… keep it going, and going and going… the more they get the more they will listen to a point
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Wow Zynga. You had an epic fail on this decision. People were having fun, connecting with each other, inviting others to play, adding neighbors, all because unique pigs & sheep were being made.
Who wants to spend time trying to gather potion to instantly grow babies, let alone try and use 10 milk bottles to grow a bland and boring animal?
Like other users, I have spent hundreds of dollars on your games (farmville & frontierville). This greedy decision of yours makes me say buh-bye to farmville. I was already bored with frontierville and even now you make it so difficult to advance in that game.
I realize you have a business to run and you need to make money. But THIS moronic decision just lost you business. My wallet is now closed.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Personally, I’m sick of all the Micro-managing and GREEDY frickin Zynga.. I’ve spent ALOT of money on the horses and getting a couple starry, flashy or other sheep and pigs from friends or posts was nice. TO He>> with Zynga.. No more horse buying for me.. or decorations or trees or anything else…. on Farmville, Petville, Mafia Wars or Frontiervill.. These are all games I have spent REAL MONEY on .. but not anymore.. I’m done.. if I can’t get it for coins, I won’t get it.. Sick of this!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Just another Zynga control issue! They could only come up with the drab and boring animals, so when someone else gets creative and it isn’t THEIR idea, they ban them all. Instead of saying how cool they are and just let things be and come up with something as spectacular on their own to add to them. If they want us to stick to the boring blah lambs and piglets, I will soon sell ALL of mine. Ugh! Back off the control issues Zynga and just let us have fun with the game!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
it was probably a glitch that resulted in their flawed game developing and this caused all these wonderful sheep and pigs to be produced. i dont believe someone hacked it. either way… they should just make it where we can play it if its already out. whats the point. they are just gonna deter people from playing w/ the breeding once everyone figures this out. t
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:25 pm
I have 3 or 4 star sheep. I didn’t think they were ‘illegal’. Oops.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
yeah. I just got 2 white sheep in a row that should’ve been patterned. both parents had stars & then both had camo.
I am VERY disappointed. I was really getting into breeding.
Zynga’s going to be sorry about this. I refuse to spend another dime if this is how they are going to treat THEIR CUSTOMERS. for crying out loud.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Okay now I AM bored…think I will go read a book. This is such a “control” thing and I do understand Zynga’s concern…but the sheep and pigs are here I say beat the hackers at thier own game and make them legit. All that aside think I will go on strike until Zynga gets their heads on straight…better get several books…it takes them the longest time to deal with what should be simple issues…now they just made an issue for themselves. Hell no I won’t breed!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
We have to vote with our dollars. I hope you all have the nerve to not buy another farmville dollar. I will not. I am done and I promise I spent over a thousand dollars in the two years I played this game. I guess I am the biggest idiot.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Just because its doesn’t bring them money, they get rid of the cool colored sheep and pigs….. in the end it’s always about money. (Sadly)
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
the coding on your pages is messed up for me.. i use ie8 everything is on the mid to the right side of the page..
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
I’m so shocked at how people can complain about a game that is free. Don’t want to spend real money don’t then! They aren’t forcing you!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
It seems like it would be a lot easier to just put the flasher sheep and star sheep in the market!
Does anyone know if masked sheep are able to breed still?
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
The people who are saying they can’t see the big picture are so right….I spent (ashamed to Admit) lots of money on potions because I couldn’t ever have enough of them. I made sure and logged onto FV many times a day because of the lure of Sheep breeding….and when pig breeding came it was just icing on the cake. I have also spend a few bucks on bottles….And MANY bucks on horses and other Cash FV Items. I bought The English sheep early on, as well as for my fiancée’ and a friend….. thats 90 Fv cash…(could be off a buck or two, can’t remember the exact price) And never ever once did it make anything but a solid color, boring sheep….any of the 3 of them. Mostly shades of blue (meaning one color) at that. Then we stopped doing it, it got boring…. VERY BORING…..then the cool colors and blinks came, and it was hot again. We all spent plenty of money on those potions again, and bottles, as well as logging in many times a day. This is very disappointing….FV will not be the same now…. it hit a peak that it will not reach again…. It’s like bringing roller coasters to theme parks…then deciding it was too fun and taking them away….. and leaving us with tea cup rides….
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Well thats just lovely I guess I’ll not be breeding sheep or pigs until they are legal this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Zynga this really sucks I’ll not waste my time or money on breeding boring animals.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
I didn’t read the entire feed here but this is how I feel. It is their fault if they are not savvy enough to stop the illegal feed of the sheep/pig. How are we suppose to know what is legal and what is not if they can’t control their own game. I have played for over a year now and have spent a bunch of money but I am about over the whole thing!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
This is a stupid idea. Many of us adopted ours legally and weren’t aware they were illegal. How in the world would we know that it is illegal, when we adopt them on facebook. This made the game more exciting and now everyone is so upset, that it is not even fun anymore. The others are so bland. I looked forward to getting potions just to see what I could produce. Give us back the fun.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Zynga is too money hungry, and won’t fix the game before bringing more dumb stuff to buy! All they are interested in is getting more money! I’m not buying any more crap with FV cash, and they can kiss my illegal A$$ or stick my illegal sheep and piglets up their BuTTs!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
I happened to get what I thought was legal, but looks like it’s not. I don’t like those that do the illegal posts. FV tries to make it fare for all.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Well the thing that ticks me off the most is the fact that I have spent 30 fv cash on a spotted purple pig and it breeds nothing but yet many of my nieghbors have all kinds of spoted ones wth many diffrent colors………….to me that is not fair that i paid the cash and cant get anything and then others get good ones…………i do know it makes it more interesting with the new sheep and i love them too..cuz it does make the game more interesting but i like somone said above will not be spending anymore real money on this game….if i cant buy it with the millions of fv money have work my butt off to get then guess i am not getting it ….
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Did people honestly think the sheep and pigs that look like 2 year olds colored them in were legit? Come on!
And the fact that they were hacked/obtained by cheating whatever was the WORST kept secret online. Just because Zynga figured out how to fix it doesn’t make them “evil.” It makes cheaters — just like the whole throttle/limit situation — to blame at the heart of it.
Cheaters ruin it for everybody.
And for those complaining about spending money on the game… nobody obtained this stuff by paying for it. In fact, if you’re paying to play (which I do) you’d think you’d be thrilled that Zynga has stopped people getting stuff for free that YOU have to pay for.
Jt
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
What a bunch of crapolla! How many millions have we paid for legal stuff that does nothing? Just a stupid building, tree, batch of flowers! Give me a break! Suddenly someone shares a flashing pig and Zynga is irritated………… Ack… How many times have I been irritated not to get on my farm(s) and didn’t prevent Zynga from continuing to sells FV $?? I’ve lost animals, crops, buildings and decorations!
ZYNGA OWES US! We are the reason they are a multi-BILLION dollar company! A few frigging ‘illegal’ pigs…. Bite me!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I never spent a dime on this game before and then a friend asked me if we have ever spent money on video games….that made me go hmmmm!!?? So I decided…what the heck, I will buy a game card. That one lead to another and another and you know what happens from there. All this B U L L that keeps going on makes me think I was right by NOT buying these cards!!! I will not buy another one just for the fact that all it does is make Zynga more money for their pocket and makes my pocket empty with nothing to show for all the money I have spent!! Like Leisl said…..I am seriously thinking of going back to Farmtown and sticking with that!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I want to know just how these ‘illegal’ made their way into the game? You can’t just make a picture and put it on your farm. Someone had to put the coding into the game some how. How? It’s getting very boring.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
trainwreck it’s all about the money your not getting anything but solids unless you pay. Sorry zynga but sheep & pigs are not interesting enough to keep me playing. The regular Fv is deserted since england started no more crafting , no new recipes , no need to plant . Nice job ! I see Zynga turning FV into one big Train wreck !
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
Thanks you Zynga! Maybe now the people who haven’t been so lucky to aquire the hacked sheep might have a chance to get cool sheep too if you release them for coins! The amount being charged for one patterned sheep is outrageous and many aren’t going to pay. Did you notice the price of the trees went up too. Inflation takes the fun out of this game.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
It’s totally understand and Just…I agree ..just have a few questions you said that the only patterns out for pigs are just plain and spotted…then how come on your advertisements you have banded piggies on their….
You have a banded piggy..a saddleback pig in the market for $300,000….??? or is that pattern not intended on being passed down?
Are you guy’s planning on getting more pigs in the market for us to breed with?
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
ZANGA YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MINDS….. When the sheep breeding started farmville was exciting again and I couldnt wait to get on the computer to play. I have spent alot of money breeding sheep and now pigs. Who wants boring ass sheep and pigs????? I will not spend another dime on farmville until this issue is resolved and if i have to quit so be it…..
DISAPPOINTED AND DISCUSSED.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
I think Zynga and the ugly plain pigs and sheep bare lots of resemblance to each other
ZYNGA YOUR AN UGLY PIG!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
News just hit a little while ago. I’ve already noticed that there are no bred sheep being posted and very few bred pigs being posted. Many of my neighbors have logged off in disgust.
Wonder how much money Zygna will have to loose before they reinstate our ability to breed all the different sheep.
And btw, I watched some of my neighbors breed “illegal” sheep – including the striped sheep within three days of the sheep breeding release. This was bad programing that allowed future patterns to show up in the game, not hackers! Some of us are not fooled Zygna…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Im amazed they are doing this. We got these sheep and pigs from our generous neighbors. We didnt do anything wrong. I was about to quit playing until these neat sheep and pigs showed up. And Ive spent good cash to get sheep and pigs from FV. I may just stop playing the game now.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Zynga has finally mastered the arts of “Trolling”..
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Well, guess that explains why I’m getting boring pigs and sheep now. I’ll just wait till they release them rather than breeding any more now.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
F U Farmville – You lost a few players in this household.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Oh good so I can waste my time getting more F-ing dot sheep….and pay out the nose for when these sheep actually show up. UGH I swear if they so much as look at cow breeding in this manner i’m quitting the game. These breeds are god awful. I wish they had done like the horses and made it so we could get something at least somewhat cute
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:34 pm
No more sheep/pig breeding for me. The plain sheep & pigs are just too boring. Too much trouble for ugly plain sheep/pigs. Really dumb move Zynga. Why do you care?
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Stop whining. Someone cheated, and cheating is wrong. Duh!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:35 pm
I think it’s crap! So they may release them in the future…but by then everyone will hit their 100 limit per farm and won’t be able to keep anything they breed. This is ridiculous! Didn’t myspace start off great and then facebook blew them out of the competition? Well the same thing is going to happen to farmville. Gamers are going to start leaving this garbage to try other more appealing and less restrictive games.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
I agree with several others. It is very frustrating up purchase Potions and or Milk only to get the same boring basic colors. IF Zynga knows how to create the other colors and patterns they should. They would continue to make their money.
I do not breed that many pigs since all I get were solid green or white. Not a lot of fun!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Stupid!! Farmville doesn’t even work right half of the time everyday is a different glitch. Then you want to take the only fun we really do have (sheep & pig breeding) got over it Zynga so what it was not your idea first on the colors and patterns. Grow up, stop the whining.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
Frickin Zynga your morons!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
this is bull ship we all spend so much time playing your games spending outa our pockets we are not kids i think i might delete every dang zagna game i have your always trying to mess up things
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
I personally think some sort of protest is in order! Do you realize what would happen if everyone just stopped paying real cash for farmville?! My sheep and my pigs seem a little boring to me now! What I don’t understand is that I still have HUGE items popping up on both my English farm and my regular farm but they can’t fix that! Instead they have spent their time fixing something that only means a small bit less money going into their pockets!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:37 pm
Well, I’m with everybody else on this. This is stupid of Zygna. They can stop the illegal sheep/pig breeding, but can’t get a handle on the cheat sites? Amazing.
I do want to thank you Zygna~I won’t be spending anymore money after what I have is gone~so this means you will be saving me money. And probably not going to play as much anymore and eventually stop.
This game started getting boring until all the cool lambs and piglets showed up and I got interested again. So back to square one.
And I have been an avid player since the begining. You people need to get a public relations Officers next time to actually think out your stupid plans of attack on the people who keep you in business. Us.
Maybe you will learn from this and allow us to keep breeding what we have and introduce something better out there to keep our intrests? I doubt it.
Thank you for saving me money and more time to do something besides sit on the computer and be a prune
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:37 pm
I don’t know why they never released a star one “officially” There was a star pattern on the welcome page. Sigh just when I was interested enough to play multiple times a day and they take away the motivation. What is the point of letting us make potions when they take away the funky stuff. Obviously the code was in there somewhere for these “illegal animals” to exist.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Screw Zynga. I’m going to start playing Farm Town. This is all about corporate greed. Their apps designers had these sheep with stars, etc., in the works. And either someone in-house leaked the sheep to their friends or someone hacked them or someone with apps ability tinkered. But this is all about Zynga’s corporate greed.
But guess what Zynga? I’m not giving you another penny. And I doubt I’ll be playing any of your apps much longer.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Farmville took away the color changers on both the sheep and pigs if you breed one you will only get a white one or a solid color. they could just charge those of us who got these animals 5 farm cash to keep breeding them and i know that i would be ok with this. its just not as fun when you cant breed the cool ones at all since the offspring will be a default color and you will loose the patterns of the regular approved ones. So no more farm cash bought by me and i have spent over 300 dollars this year on farmville. oh well i guess i will have to go fishing and spend my money on that instead
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Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
well I’m done breeding both the sheep and the pigs , I am not spending any money on a game I have been out of FC for the last 11 levels since apparently they don’t give out level up FC to players over level 100 being at 111 it was getting a little boring so now it looks like its gonna be boring again because i will not be able to buy the “NEW” patterns that come out that I already have , whatever keep your dull sheep and pigs ZYNGA has done it again ! way to go!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I for one want to know if my credit card number (which I’ve used to purchase FarmCash before) is safe… If someone can hack the system and put “illegal” sheep and pigs into the system, what’s stopping them from getting my credit card number? That would be a much easier hack than putting “Illegal” colors into the system.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I never even went to england for the sheep breeding. I was to the point where I didn’t want to spend more time or money on the game. then…I was really getting into the pig breeding on my home farm….oh well. I reached my ultimate goal of hitting level 100. The pig breeding kept me interested after that, so I couldn’t walk away. I can now, thanx, Zynga. ba-bye
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Simple, don’t breed until Zynga release the forbidden animals. Boycott !
Yet again, like SPP, the game has had the fun taken out of it for $$$ !
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:41 pm
Just found out that farville is releasing the color changers for 30 farm cash and they can only be bred once a day. this was a marketing ploy to get us hooked. frak zyunga
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:41 pm
I just have 1 word for zynga…BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
I had JUST said I was taking a break from FV when the cool sheep came out. Now I’ve been spending a lot of time and money seeing what kind of funky sheep I can create. I have many flashers and such that I obtained from neighbors and the feed LEGITIMATELY. I guess Zynga has done it again…why does everything have to have a price tag on it? Explains some of the weird offspring today. ZYNGA, YOU’RE MAKING A MISTAKE; just let people play the game!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Wah Wah Wah… Ugh- babies! If you don’t like it, LEAVE. Nobody makes you play the game. Jeez
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
deleting both pigpens and both sheep pens and both duck ponds, for the “crap” from eggs both chicken coops, dairies and stables leaves more room for crops and trees!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
it sound like to me that zynga need to let the ppl go that did not think of these sheep and hire the ppl that did……and you just know that in the next couple week the flashing sheep exc.or either going to be in the mystery game or in the market for like 26 fc or up….. it sounds like to me that they are gong to looose out on money if ppl or not going to buy lp any more……zyngas like why didnt we think of that duh…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
You could have released this before I bred 7 sheep and used those potions…..
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST UNBELEAVABLE THINGS THAT ZYNGA HAS DONE IN AWHILE I MEAN MOST OF THE TIME WE CAN SPOT A SO CALLED MISTAKE BUT AH HELLO WTF WE ARE BREEDING WITH SHEEP AND PIGS THAT WEVE BOUGHT FROM U GUYS SO HOW ARE THEY MISTAKES I DONT UNDERSTAND WTH THEY WERE THINKING WHEN THEY DECIDED THIS THE ONLY RESONE IVE BEEN MESSING WITH THE SHEEP PEN N THE PIG PEN WAS 4 THE PRETTY FLASHING STARED BLABLABLA ITEMS THIS IS JUST GONA TURN THE PEN INTO ANOTHER ITEM TAKING UP SPACE JUST LIKE THE TURKY ONE THAT I DONT TOUCH OH AND TO B HONEST I HAVET TOUCHED THE PIGPEN N A LONGGGGGGGGG TIME TIL A FEW DAYS AGO I SPEND ALOT OF MONEY HERE AND ALOT OF MY FREIND SPEND MORE ZYNGA YOUR GOING TO HURT YOUR OWN BUSINESS
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
what a crock!! we have legal striped pigs so they were never gonna let us get a pig that we actually bought!! and all of the people saying crap about zynga is right and should restrict our games are sooo full of it!! zynga took a fun game and turned it into a boring crappy game, when they lose money mabe they will wake up but i doubt it, they will lose alot of players. zynga knew this breeding was going on and they sat back and took all the money until the whiners started about boohoo people cheating! its all a bunch of crock!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:45 pm
Well if Zynga would publish OFFICIAL RULES – in an easy and clear manner that was easily accessible – and update these rules every time something new was added or something was changed, it would be much easier to play.
Are the sheep we had before (Miner sheep, red sheep, flower sheep, etc. – and the same with pigs) okay to use to breed or are only NEW ones allowed? Is my belted pig okay to breed? Are we still going to get a gene. chart on the breeding sheep? And will the collectibles really end SOON, and if so will they be replaced with a new set??? We keep hearing of things coming but they never show up. And what is the deal with showing “Expansion”? Is that really going to happen? How about some truthful answers and some consideration for its regular players and all of us who spend lots of time and MONEY on this. Please.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:45 pm
I call for a complete boycott of the entire Zynga game system! NOBODY plays ANY Zynga game for the rest of the week! If you consider the fact that WE pay the salaries for the business…WE make the game what it is…then you will realize that as a collective unit we can control the game from their end. Without us…there are no games and they have no business! PASS IT ON TO BOYCOTT THIS COMPANY FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
I have seen the flashing sheep and I hate them. I love the easter pastel sheep. The pigs look a bit stupid I think. If people are using something in a way that is not ment to be then Zynga should simply delete it from their farm. Since when do you see funky colored sheep on a farm anyway. I personaly think the farms should be more realistic with different breeds insted of funky colors like the horses. I love collecting those!! I love this game and to those who can’t be thankfull for a good game and play by the rules can take a flying leap!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Everyone needs to flood Zynga site with all these comments. Zynga doesnt bother to read here. email zynga everyone. give them more then a million emails and crash their email system!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
I think this is a crock of Sh*t . I play on farmville everyday BECAUSE i enjoy it. And now yall are going to stop us from creating beautiful colored sheep and pigs. Just because its not what yall designed,,,Thats WRONG!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Ah well, Zynga can keep all the boring sheep as much as they want
I am going back to Farmtown.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Comment: Zynga has done it again. How did this get started????Most of us just play for fun and what we have been doing is sharing these special sheep with our neighbors. One of the above comments “Yes, why would we spend any more money to breed the ordinary , boring sheep??????” And then the comment, that when they do release the legal ones , we can once again breed. Or once again “Have fun!!!!!” I just adopted my from a neighbor and they did not get theirs illegally. This game is supposed to be for fun, but if this kind of stuff keeps happening, why should we continue????
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
THIS IS A BUNCH OF BULL…. IT AINT OUR FAULT THAT FARMVILLE IS SLOW COMPARED TO US AND SOMEONE FOUND THEM & GAVE THEM TO EVERYONE CUZ SOME OF THE PPL LIKE ME GOT THEM THRU A FRIEND & HAD TROUBLES GETTING THEM SO WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET THEM… FARMVILLE JUS WANTS TO MAKE THE MONEY OUT OF THEM BY MAKIN YOU PAY FARMVILLE DOLLARS FOR THEM THAT SOME OF US AINT RICH ENOUGH TO BUY SO WE WONT GET THEM!!!!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
i think this is a bunch of crap we already havew the dam sheep and pigs so why stop the flashers now this made my mind up i am done playing zynga games and done playing fv
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Zynga is killing me…”when we DO release these patterns”…they’ve already been released by more creative people! lol They forgot to add “when we do release these patterns, players will be able to fork over more farm cash to BUY them from us….look out Zynga, you are losing a few bucks…seriously, “illegal sheep and pigs” so, can we expect Barney freakin Fife to come a callin and slap the cuffs on everyone? We have to go thru an act of congress to get potions and bottles…why don’t they just leave us alone and let us play….they make so much money now they could pay off the national debt for goodness sakes…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
$ynga takes the fun out of farmville.so now all those potion co-ops and worring about posting every 4 hrs for potions will cease. just like the foals that will never grow up. thanks for nothing
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
I adopted mine in good faith, I am not the sheep and pig police. They will find now the sudden urgency for potion stops. Face it The sheep and pigs Zinga wants us to have are boring
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
BTW: Zynga be sure and try to SELL me more potions to breed ugly, useless stinky sheep or pigs! NOT! I WON’T BE FOOLED! Shame on Zynga!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
It is sad to know that once again we are gonna lose all that we have put into our game! Is ZYGNA gonna give us back our potions and bottles???? NO they are not! They will change out sheep/pigs to “normal colors” then 2 months from now they will come out with the sheep that we had! We work hard for our stuff not to mention the money that we give to this damn game. We have fun with the new pigs/sheep and now you take it away. Instead of pissing off your players you should be fixing the “bugs” that you have and leave our stuff alone!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
i say screw zynga….i’ve been fighting with them for almost 3 months steady to fix frontierville game play so that i can play, and lately i’ve noticed that cityville and fv are not acting so great either, slow loading, glitches, haven’t played cafe world in a year, thats instant freeze, and treasure isle isn’t much better…
now this…zynga, we all know you need to make money to pay the developers, etc…its a business, but the cat is out of the bag on this breeding thing, so you just need to roll with the punches, accept that you are not making money on these animals, but you were making money apparently on potions and bottles…
you all need a whole employee overhaul it sounds like, from the top of the ladder to the bottom…its whatever…there are plenty of other games out there that work well, and are alot fairer…not consumed by money, or corporate backed as you at zynga have become…ya, did ya think we were that stupid, all this pairing up with frito lay, rio movie, mcdonalds, etc….gotta please the big shot azzholes, right?….
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
Get real people!!! I haven’t spent a dime in “real money” for farmville!!! My God, I can’t believe people actually do!!! There is no “reward” for these stupid pigs and sheep, they just clog up your farm!!! Forget the dumb animals, plant crops, join co-ops with your neighbors, that’s what farming is all about (I grew up on one for real!) Get to know your neighbors and do things “together”!!! I have found that to be the fun part of Farmville!!! Think about it, what are you ever going to do with all these shep and pigs that are worth what, 50 coins, 100 coins?!!!!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Ok farmvillers ! I quote one of the biggest ever and still prob biggest game ever was the Sims 1 2 and 3 Guess what their fan site had mods downloads etc it is what makes the game so cool sharing what you have the Sims actually have millions of fansites and you can download heaps of mods for free or by pay pal Zynga is cutting their nose to spite their face on this one ! besides you have to pay farm cash for too many of the cool animals on Zynga already !
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
i only breed these sheep to get the flashing and stars etc. same for the pigs. if you shut down the breeding of these you will probably lose more money and fv platers than you realize. i will no longer purchase a fv dollar or will i be purchase anything from the market for fv dollars. those of us who obtained these she legally of the feed should not be penalized. the flashing stars etc are what makes it fun.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:53 pm
I’ll stop breeding and get rid of the pub…don’t need it. As soon as my pigs and sheep stop flashing…it’ll save me a lot of time…because I won’t have to go after bottles or potions anymore…so go ahead Zynga….try and charge us 30 farm cash for other peoples designs and see how many suckers you can get to buy them…I won’t be one of them. Got rid of the stupid pig pen once, I can do it again.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:54 pm
aww is zynga un happy because they are not getting the 20 dollars a piece for the sheep and pigs i thought this was a damn game where we was suppose to be having fun i think its bs that they want to charge money for this **** when when the world is hurting with no work and the stress folks play these games to relax not get pissed off because stuff that we got dont work no more SO LOSERS
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
I’m done playing, it’s as simple as that. No more money spent, no more farmville consuming all my time, it’s boring without the cool patterns of breeding, that was the most exciting thing that has come along in 2 years. If everyone stops playing, even for a day, they will get the message loud and clear.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
To all my Farmville Friends, FV is becoming a joke all they care about is $$MONEY$$$$ i say if they want to complain about illegeal breeding sheep and pigs because they didnt get the farmville cash for it, I say STOP BUY ITEMS WITH FARMVILLE CASH ONLY COINS !!!!!!!!!IF YOU AGREE REPOST AND FREEze FV CASH SPENDING
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:55 pm
If Zynga was going to cut off breeding of “illegal” sheep, I’m surprised they didn’t do it sooner. I’ve got all kinds of flashers, camo’s, and stars. I was even starting to sell some of the uglier ones. (Let’s face it, some of those odd sheep are hideous!) Stripes, polka dots, and plain sheep are B O R I N G in comparison. Can’t say that I’m angry at Zynga because I always they weren’t officially released patterns.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Well I was going to buy a couple gift cards on payday for some love potions and a new Boar and Ram to breed with the so-called “illegal” sheep & pigs sent to me by my farm friends… now with this unfortunate policy that zynga has implimented, I’m gonna take my money and order pizza for the roommates or something that zynga won’t profit from…. If you want to get a company’s attention, hit them where it hurys.. in the profits!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
I’m mostly pissed that my sheep stable is at the max size so I have 3 rooms for breeding but haven’t has access to my 3rd room for several days now. What the heck is up with that?!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
Like someone else said; being able to create these new bright flashing animals and cross new patterns was making Farmville fun again. I made new neighbors & friends, and got enjoyment out of sharing these new animals with others. Taking this away was a huge mistake that will cost zynga dearly. The cat was already let out of the bag- the right thing to do would have been to create more new flashers/changers/patterns to put on their market and leave the ones that were already out. Now I don’t even want to play anymore. All that extra time I spent looking for potions and bottles can be better spent on gardening or book reading now, since I won’t waste it to grow up a plain white sheep. And since I don’t have enough to go buy these digital animals with real money, there’s no reason to play much anymore. I hope you are happy that you ruined this game for many of us.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Personally, I have made many friends from breeding…. breeding for people, exchanging them like trading cards. I have gained 12-15 after breeding was introduced to trade sheep and pigs….so there is huge camaraderie in trading animals….as much, if not more, than in co-ops
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Hey, Zynga dont yyou know that is not good enough for us players who have them. So what your Hackers did you all an awesome favor. They made you money so why punish them along with everyone else. They made your game better and made you money. So like the dirt farmer says Hhire the hackers maybe yud get somewhere and people would play your stupid games.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Zynga you can stick your pigs and your sheep where the sun don’t shine.. what a crock!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
This is pathetic. Sheep breeding was fun for me because I was excited to get color changes and starry sheep. Now what? Neither of those are allowed.
They better atleast give me back some love potions I used just to get any of the sheep they take away.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Because of other gaming experiences, I hate hackers and fully support Zynga. Hacking is a violation of the end-user license that each and everyone of you approved by playing the game. The people who are complaining are the same sorts that allow hacks to end up ruining other games like wall-hacks and auto aim hacks on the Call of Duty games. I know that it’s not exactly the same but supporting hacking in one game is indirectly supporting hacking in other games. I know I going to get some abuse but I’ll go ahead and say I don’t care.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
this games getting getting far to much i am 97 level and gonna quit pretty sure more people i know are quiting to
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Of course they’ll outlaw them if they aren’t making some money from them. Epic fail on the part of Zynga, lock the damn barn door once the animals are out… THEY wanted us to share sheep with our friends and when we did, somehow the patterns got unlocked and now WE get to take it on the chin? That’s just wrong. Way to make people quit, Farmville, way to go.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
READ THIS….I’M SERIOUS…..
GIVE IT A REST PEOPLE!!!
It’s ONLY A GAME.
Women who won’t buy their kids an Xbox spend hundreds of dollars on fake farm animals. You spend $4 on a sheep and now you don’t like what it breeds…..CRY ME A RIVER.
There are people in Japan who’ve lost everything, and you’re whining about the color of your cartoon sheep & pigs!?!?!?!?
IT’S A FREE GAME.
You actually thought those SEIZURE-CAUSING sheep were “cool” & “exciting”?
If you were CEO for Zynga, you’d be protecting your enterprise, too! You wouldn’t let hackers change your product….If you would, then download ‘Charles’ and start making your own sheep! Otherwise, GET A LIFE!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
I think it is embarrassing , that there are more creative ppl than Zynga designers. But also it is upsetting when you pay honestly and get nothing. I have purchased both stripe ram and purple pig. The breeding result is zip in what it cost. stripe comes always white and purple and the pig come without white spots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So why not to hack if they cheat us too
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
If you currently have “illegal” Sheep or Pigs obtained or “adopted” from your Facebook News Feed (or from a neighbor) such as Flashers, which have not yet been released into the FarmVille Market,
TRANSLATION ztard stole the funky sheep n pigs n will be selling them for fvc soon
SACK THE DESIGNERS , HIRE THE HACKERS !!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Happy farming? Puh-leeeze! Zynga is just acting like pouty children because they didn’t think up the ideas. I mean… ok. I understand that they don’t want people hacking their game. I agree those people should be punished. But as they have repeatedly said, those of us who have these animals through legitimate breeding have done nothing wrong. So why are we being punished? Seriously guys… get a grip. Cash in on the wave, put the “illicit” sheep in the market for sale, and let us get on with playing the game.
Ever hear the expression, “Like closing the barn door after the horses got out?” Well Zynga has just done it, and shut their collective head in the door to boot. To take away our ability to breed these sheep now is kind of like giving a child a really cool toy that makes him squeal with delight, then snatching it from his hands and telling him he can go play with a box of rocks.
END RESULT: There is no reason for me to play this game any more. My favorite toy has just been taken away, and I refuse to sit quietly with my nose in the corner.
How many ways can YOU spell B-O-R-I-N-G? Cuz thats what the breeding choices we have left are.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
what a bunch of BS. The -only- thing Ive been excited about was breeding sheep with stars and Ive been looking forward to getting a camo ram and a flashing ram.. Im really glad my current star sheep are going to stay with stars, but Im RIGHT PISSED THE F OFF that I can’t make anymore
what the fluffing fluff, zynga???!! You see something is HUGELY catching on and encouraging people to farm more, so you… TAKE IT AWAY??! That isn’t just annoying, it’s about the dumbest business practice I could think of. Why not, I don’t know, RELEASE A RAM WITH STARS IN THE MARKET?? You already can see how bad people want it and subsequently, how much you can charge for it, why not do that? Why just squish the fun everyone is having completely?
Yesterday I was having a -horrible- day, and it seriously made me feel a little bit better to get to make some star sheepies, Im sure some other people feel the same. And as silly as that might be, it makes me rather angry that zynga cares more about their bottom line (although, as I said above, they could go “legitimate” with this stuff and make their money on it) than the enjoyment their players get from the game..
it’s just one thing after another, anymore.. im, sadly, loosing interest
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
So let me get this straight …
Zynga has still not fixed problems that have been going on for months. Some people can’t get their farm to load correctly. Many still can’t do co-ops properly. Some have disappearing items (my trough went “poof” one day, for instance). People have written about this for months, and apparently, this is not very important.
But Zynga fixes THIS right away? Yeah. I’ll sleep better at night knowing that the world is safe for FV.
Before the Zynga-holics complain, yes, I actually DO buy the “official” sheep when they are released when I can. Zynga probably has too much of my farm cash. I am not trying to “cheat”. But I do have to admit oohing and aahing when some of these co-called “illegal” sheep come out looking really pretty, in all different color variations.
Perhaps Zynga could have prevented this if they released many FREE … yes … gasp .. FREE sheep in some pretty patterns, as well as cash ones. Perhaps it could have prevented this if it released “wow” patterns that people couldn’t wait to get, rather than waste its devs’ time trying to stop these so-called “illegal” sheep with which, from what I read, very few people had issues. What a concept, I suppose. Giving quality FREE items.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
REALLY ZYNGA????how freakin’ STUPID!!Ii’ve spent my last dollar on this game~~~~i was spending a lot of time on mafia wars but made sure i made it to my farm to breed the cool sheep(mine r legal)~~well, guess what??MAFIA WARS FULLTIME!!i could care less if i played fv now.its boring and its crazy to pay fv cash for a stupid ram with a queer stripe when we could breed really neat 1′s ourselves…it was fun and interessting to reed and adopt these neat lambs and pigs…as ususal, anything thats fun ZYNGA MAKES SURE TO RUIN IT:{
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
you all are taking away all of the excitement in the game thats not right and if thats how its gonna be then im not going to play anymore and i know a whole lot more people are gonna agree with me U ALL NEED TO START CAREING ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT PLAY YOUR GAME AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT MONEY IM SURE U ALL MAKE ENOUGH MONEY OFF OF THIS GAME ALREADY NOT TO BE HURTING IF WE BREED OUR SHEEP THE WAY WE WANT TO SO GET THIS S**t STRAIGHT WE WANT OUR SHEEP BACK!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
You know, I waited and waited for the English Countryside to be released. When it was I was in love all over again, but …the prices and short availablity of some of the items were discouraging. Then I got my first so called “illigal” sheep through a post on my wall and I was hooked all over again. And yes, I have puchased quite a few Farmviille Cards to help with my sheep breeding (potions and all) just for the thrill of seeing something brand new come alive on screen. So you want to stop it.? Well, we will stop it then. No more game card purchases from me. And Farmville….you are going in the wrong direction, you have survived because you traditionally didn’t get involved with all the b.s. the other games are into…10 thousand mission etc. All the Zynga games are alike now. The only thing new really new and exciting lately were those sheep. Now they are gone. And for the record…what are you waiting for ? Why not just go ahead and release them or are you all haggling over how many thousands of dollars it will cost per bottle of potion or the trillion FC we will need to feed your habits. We, you just ended my addiction to this game. Thanks. More money in my pocket and not yours.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
WTF, All you are doing is making people mad. I personally spend quite a bit of my money breeding, feeding these damn pigs and sheeps. What are you thinknig zynga? Are you all tryin to run people off. I have just spent my last dime on this damn gane, and i probably will give it up. I am so tired of all the stupid rules you all make up as you go. Thanks a lot ZYNGA!!!! YOU DID IT TO YOUR SELVES, SO WHEN YOU LOSE ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE, SIT BACK AND TELL YOURSELVES HOW SRUPID YOU ALL ARE…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Boycott Zynga Games June 1-5
Up the number of bred sheep and pigs, release patterns and reduce your prices
I realize they are a business and they are trying to make $ but why punish all of us for the short falls of a few.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
What is the big deal??? It’s just sheep…and pigs. You end up having to sell duplicates when you run out of room to house them, anyway!
Why are people so upset….they’ll give us cooler animals than the hackers did, eventually.
Patience!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
I am level 100. Been playing 14 months. I am not Happy. Sheep breeding was fun. Now, it is not. I will not buy anything else from Zynga. Thinking about quitting all together. Only thing keeping me is my neighbors. I love my neighbors. Zynga on the other hand, SUCKS.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
I agree completely with Zynga ,the people are crying about gamers unite etc but these hackers are the real dumbys from the game ,I delete next week an neighbour because of his English farm was full with content that not supposed to be there .Equal condition for everyone!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Zynga is stabbing their own selfs in the back!! They will lose customers and players over this one. Y dont they just release the **** and quit trying to piss people off!! Its not the publics fault that unreleased **** has hit the farms, if they knew how to do their jobs, “unreleashed” would mean just that “unreleashed”!! Apparently just another f— up on their part!! What they need to take away are the idiots that cant create their **** without some common joe being able to releash **** for em!! Maybe they need to hire the people that seem to be able to keep the customers half way happy!! Way to go, one more time Zyntards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Over a week ago I read Zynga was not going to do anything to punish players due to hackers illegal sheep. Why are we being punished for your errors now Zynga?
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:13 pm
I was so enjoying the excitement of getting different sheep and pigs , You zinga are at fault for not in corperating this feature into the game. I never usally spend money on items , but i have been buying farmville cash to buy bottles to feed the sheep and now the pigs , because i wanted to see what they were going to be . so basiclly zinga , you were making money off of me and alot of others while we were feeding illegal animals !! I have enjoyed your games , but it seems like i can’t play without spending cash .guess i will have to go to a site where i pay a membership and never have to pay for a bunch of items to keep playing . Your system sure screwed up this time , I am really angery about this !
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
WE WILL GET BETTER SHEEP FOR FREE…..just wait.
Those flashers, etc were retarded! I avoided them, myself…doesn’t anyone else think they were over the top? The hackers weren’t very good.
No biggie, enjoy playing the game like before….no one is complaining about the BORING HORSES. Why not?
HMMMmmmmmmmmmm ?
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
P.S. To whoever started the illegal sheep breeding….start your own website. Sounds like you have a handle on what people like. Then let us know where to find you. !
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
I own TLC Gaming and we are producing some online games….first one will be out this year. I totally understand that Zynga MUST make money in order to keep the game free for MANY players HOWEVER I do NOT understand how they could have such slack security to allow a “hacker” to access the coding to the “illegal” animals. When I have something in production, it is NOT linked AT ALL to ANYTHING a hacker could even access. You HAVE to have the coding WITHIN the game itself for it to be accepted by the gaming software/hardware, AND it has to be IN the game for it to show the correct coding when you hover your mouse over the word Farmville on FB posts. So Zynga developed these animals and IN MY OPINION accidentally released them and didnt charge real money for them. It sounds to me like they messed up and is all to willing to place the blame on an unknown hacker so the players would not be mad at THEM! However this is flawed in the thinking and many ARE angry at THEM. As a developer, I really should ONLY concentrate on MY games yet to come, however I have played Zynga games for YEARS and spent THOUSANDS on them all….which I WILL NOT complain about. However I will now complain and STOP the spending if the money I have spent is all for nothing. I have suggested FV to MANY of MY clients who are waiting for my games to launch as a time killer, and FV was the main one I suggested!! So for that I am very upset! I will NOT suggest Zynga games to my clients, I will not play these games to relax and recharge my brain from ALL the coding that goes into making an online game!!
Zynga, from one developer to another…..make the sheep and pigs go back to what they were a few hours ago…offer the special pigs and sheep for real money…and folks will STILL buy them cause you get new players EVERY DAY who have not yet gotten them…..or folks who cant get them from the feed due to Gamers Unite and also Bonus Checker WHICH FOLKS…..ZYNGA APPROVES OF BONUS CHECKER!! YUP They said they wont do anything about that one!! So you allow cheat apps to snag live feed posts but you are cutting your throats about cool animals that got bored players to be happy!! Not a great financial decision here!!!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
I think it is also pertinent to note that some of the now deemed “Illegal” sheep were ones that Zynga proudly displayed on their “coming soon” splash screens (the star sheep for example) just to tease us, and then never let us have. Like… what kind of business tactic is that? The way I see it, *some* of the hacking (again, I don’t condone it) simply gave to us the things Zynga insinuated that we were going to get and then never followed through with. Pfft. Instead of throwing pig breeding at us (which I am NOT participating in), why not make sheep breeding a truly great experience? Stop knocking the hackers, design some awesome sheep, and put them in the market. Guaranteed, they would sell. Or… would have. Now most of us will probably go back to our real lives and ignore the whole mess.
As for our “whining”, C, we were asked what our opinion was. Some of us were exercising our right to do so. If it offends you that we are giving it, go play with your dull sheep and ignore us.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
This will some it up to you ZYNGA people. All I want to say is RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this website is for anyone that would love to hear the new anthem sung to ZYNGA
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
This is obvious in my opinion. People are sick of the ridiculous hike in FV Cash items. I understand that Zynga wants to make money, but it really does take the fun out of the game. I quit once and it appears I’m going to do it again. First, your cute little foul that you want to grow up to look like it’s parent turns out to be an ugly blue pony! Your valentines day calf turns into a chocolate cow, and then if we would like to master a tree we have to pay for that too because the sapling is the tweaked version….
I really don’t know what they expected with the breeding, because one person could purchase the ram, breed one for all their friends, and voila! everyone has a spotted sheep etc….The “illegal” sheep was the retaliation of FV players who have had it up to here with the Cash crap. More power to them! I can’t wait to see what they come up with next…at least they make it a bit more fun for the FV players.
Time to plant a 4 day crop and call it…I not going to be breeding plain piggies anytime soon.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
http://youtu.be/C-okDJA5CVw
Great day to Whoop someone’s ass
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
I can’t believe what I am reading. You morons spent THOUSANDS of dollars to play a FREE game?! You aren’t upset that Zynga is doing this over illegal sheep/pigs, you are upset at yourselves for being so stupid that you spent your whole paychecks on this. I play all Ville games and haven’t spent one dime of my own money to do it. Sure, I’d like all the fancy stuff that costs “cash” but I can’t afford it. I don’t see how anyone else that spends all day on these games can either.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
THIS IS JUST ST*PID!!!…… END OF MY COMMENT NO MORE WORDS NEEDED…..
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Ok now I dont get it…Zynga is saying that the only LEGAL pigs are the ones with spots on their butts, and plain…WELL I have a problem then with their start up screen…it also shows a pig with a band around the middle like the belted pig…which they had up for sale for like 300K…sooooo if that is an ILLEGAL one(obviously since they are saying only 2 legal pigs exist) then why do they advertise it on their start up page??? I seriously think Zynga is going to hurt themselves with this one…Im done breeding…I mean how many baby SH*T browns and greens can a person have…thanks Zynga taught me a lesson
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
My major problem with this is I kept breeding my ‘illegal’ sheep in order to produce a special request for a friend, with NO KNOWLEDGE of this ‘ban’. Which means I spent a TON of potions trying to get a masked/neon/camo sheep to appear today. I think they should have put a popup into the game warning players WHY they’d only be getting white sheep.
~Jenn
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
FRAN – It’s a CARTOON GAME. Re-read your rant & try to realize how ridiculous it sounds.
“”Why not make sheep breeding a truly great experience?”"
Come on…it’s not that big of a deal. Everyone gets to keep the sheep they have, so who cares?
People who whine this intently about something that’s NOT REAL, tend to not really have a ‘real life’ to go back to
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
I really think they just think of new way to make users stop playing their games xD!!!!
I mean its pretty boring after reaching level 100 ‘cuz you dont get any more cash for every level gained…. by that time you must have all the masterys so…. it only left tree mastery and sheep breeding.
I only get in my second farm to get love potions and breed cool sheeps since i master most of the seeds…. now they are telling me i cant breed cools stuff my neighboors gift me from news feed? This is just stup*d i mean why in hell do i want to play a second farm in wich i cant do anything fun? Its not like we hack or something to get star patern sheeps xD LOL
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
i to spend money on this game, and enjoy it very much, some of us have lost alot of time and money on this game, i have flashing sheep and i got it off the game page, as far as flashing pigs i dont and cant get any of these, cant say i havent tryed for them, but i know i dont spend any more money on this game i have learned my lesson on that, its a fun game and just a game, no more or no less, and the zynga rewards are fun to get also until they take them away from you. but as we all know some of us that have no jobs and live on a fixed income, have only this game and enjoy it alot. as i have said it before, i have a job, but zynga can hire me, i will try to fix it were u can buy things with coins not cash. thank for letting me vent for awhile.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Keep the comments coming friends. You can’t tell me that Zynga doesn’t have employees reading every word here. Here you can say what’s on your mind but the Zynga forums censor you. If you say anything derogatory you get banned.
So, with that said, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ZYNGA!!! You treat us like children with all your rules and punishment. I’M SICK AND TIRED OF GIVING YOU MY MONEY FOR SUCH CRAPPY SERVICE!!! I’m ashamed to say but I think I’ve spent about a thousand dollars on this game in less than a year and I know people that have spent much more. Your game may be addicting but addictions can be broke!
Maybe if they took the time to actually put something in the market worth buying rather than just repainting the same horses, ponies, and cows, we’d be more willing to buy. That’s about as creative as the giant trees! The sheep and pigs in the market are plain and UGLY!!!
Not only this issue which just SUCKS!!! but they want us to buy stuff from them and then don’t give us anyplace to put it. My farms are looking cluttered and yet we only have space for 500 items in storage and absolutely no storage for animals or trees. I guess they think we’ll sell our items we paid Farmcash for to buy new ones, WELL, NOT ME!!! My holiday decorations alone take up most of my storage. I guess they want me to sell them and buy them again next Christmas. It’s fun to rearrange your farm with your items in storage but after about 6 months of playing, there’s no storage left.
When I get done here, I’m going to check out Farm Town. I know it’s a business but for a business to thrive they have to please the customer and give them what they want. I AM NOT PLEASED!!! They release 3 horses a week now which is killing the pocketbooks of the horse breeders and now they want more money for trees. Their greed is UNBELIEVABLE!!!
I never in my wildest dreams thought I would pay real money for a game other than the money you pay up front to own one, so if they want anymore of MY money they better change things FAST!!! Too many free games out there. Summer’s coming and we all have better things to do than sit here at the computer giving Zynga our hard earned dollars.
As far as THEIR security issues, that’s NOT MY PROBLEM!!!! HIRE SOME TECHS THAT KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY’RE DOING, AND GET SOME DECENT SECURITY!!!
The game is FULL of glitches and always has been. Giant sheep pens and pig pens. This has been going on since Cupid’s castle!!! Constant out of sync!!! I spend half my time playing just waiting for my farm to load. I think the fun’s gone, so I”M GONE!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Oh yea, if the “hackers” are real….then I would LOVE to employ you to do cool stuff for MY games…….job offer for ya!!!! A legit one where you dont have to do stupid stuff to hurt people!! You could actually make REAL money while being HONEST!! So come to my site, address is in my name, go to the forums under the topic about Jobs and apply for the graphic/animators!! Make yourself honest by being PAID to be creative and leave innocent folks alone!! Just a thought here!! ANYONE reading this that has that kind of talent to do graphic and animations as well as programming experience can apply…..I have good security, and plan to have great security once the games launch….I will not tolerate being hacked and if I do get hacked I wont wait till I make MILLIONS off it to stop it!! tlcgaming.com is where you can find me!!!!!!! ANYONE coming to the site and live FREE chat needs to understand we are FAMILY FRIENDLY and dont allow cussing and such…..just good CLEAN fun!!!! Hope to see some of you good folks there….we have contests and forum games to keep busy while waiting for the games to be launched!!! Our trademarked saying is “A Game For The People By The People” and in developing the games we ask what folks want to see in that particular game……and we LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:28 pm
Dear Tracy from TLCgaming.com:
I would like to submit to you that Bonus Checker is NOT the same as a bonus snagger. Please hear me out.
Bonus snaggers are set (as I understand it) to automatically COLLECT bonuses for a player, thus eliminating all the clicking and accepting of items from the feeds.
Bonus checker, on the other hand, simply does what the FB wall USED to do (albeit better than FB ever did it) by allowing us to filter our feeds and gather all the FV items together, thus eliminating having to scroll through endless pages of posts to find what we need. YOU STILL HAVE TO CLICK THE LINK to collect the items. Bonus Checker does not do that for you! I have lots of friends who use it and it doesn’t bother me one bit. What bothers me is people whose third party apps can collect items for them when they are at work, sleeping… any time they are not at the computer. or even if they are, and they are busy playing the game. I can’t tell you how many cool things i’ve missed while i’ve been planting or growing trees. Them’s the breaks. I won’t cheat to overcome it. Just sayin…
And really… is bonus checker any different than Zynga’s own (horribly flawed) game bar? Oh… right. It isn’t horribly flawed. My bad…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
http://www.facebook.com/pages/We-Want-to-Breed-in-farmville/160376210668243 …..this fb page was created….. go like it
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
EVERYONE!!!!!!
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GO HERE:
http://support.zynga.com/CP_ContactUs?gameid=63&loc=en_US
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AND COMPLAIN! Once you choose “gameplay” & “farmville” there is even a “A Note Regarding Sheep and Pig Breeding” dropdown to select for your complaint.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
ok so Zynga says only plain and spotted pigs, yet their own loading page shows a belted pig like the saddleback?? what gives there? I have tried to breed my saddleback pigs 30 times and I never got a saddleback stripe??
But yet they can promo a saddleback stripe on their pop up page??
Confused
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
I was about to quit FV ~ if this is true that we are not going to be able to breed to fun, cool interesting sheep I will quit. It’s not our fault Zynga screwed up…AGAIN. I hope you all change your mind and quit playing stupid games, or me and a bunch of others will quit playing your stupid games and giving you money. I have better things to spend my time and money on if I can’t have fun trying to get different patterns and being creative.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Wow…what a bunch of whiners most of you are…Someone HACKED into the code to find these sheep. How do you thing we get all the previews of all the “unreleased” items, because people are nosy and they look. Well this got out of hand. For me HACKED = STEALING. If you dont want to pay for a ram or boar then dont. Why wouldnt Zynga get upset about someone hacking into their code and STEALING their sheep? Of course they are going to come out in the market and be expensive, but if you want it that bad, then buy it. Someone WORKED to make that coveted sheep of yours. Someone had to sit there and design it and write the code for it, and for heaven’s sake, they DESERVE to be paid for their work, not have it stolen from them only to have all the “fans” of their work b**** and moan when they dont get it for free. You all forget that someone WORKED to get you your fancy little decorations/animals/trees or what ever it is that you love about your farm. I would be really mad if I had put in a hard day’s work only to have a stranger come and steal it from me, and then get mad at me when I catch them and tell them to stop. How does that work in the real world?
This is a darn nice FREE game, and you most certainly can play it for free. I do buy some things because I like them and I think the person who WORKED so hard to make it deserves to be paid for it. Zynga is a business not a charity. They have given me many hours of enjoyment, and most of it for free.
I see all the $$$$ my husband spends on his XBOX360 and PS3, and I am thankful I get off so easy on my favorite game.
Grow up people…I am getting really tired of all the cheating and hacking. Cheaters have completely messed up how much stuff we can get from the feed. Good for Zynga for keeping people HONEST.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
As a player from the start and an owner of about 100 illegal sheep and pigs I am not to upset over this. I knew that eventually they would stop them from being created. I decided to breed them and share them though.
I pay money to buy certain items and enjoy playing the game. And I enjoy my neighbors. I have no doubt that these could have one day hit the market; but the same cheaters who caused feed limits are to blame for these issues. So you want Zynga to be more user friendly?
Why not trying to visit cheater sites – find out who on your list is part of it and delete them. When people stop hacking into the game Zynga won’t lose money and maybe they would reduce the cost. But players have become much more greedy over the last year. Items are snagged off of feeds without a simple thank you or click of a like button. Out of all the things Zynga has done over the last 2 years I find that the thing that makes me want to stop playing is the greed of the players more than anything.
Think about how many times your barn raising, storage expansion etc. failed because your neighbors don’t help. That is far worse than what a for profit company is doing. If the only thing that kept you playing was the flashing sheep/pigs then quit – but there are far more things to keep you playing than a few sheep/pigs.
Zynga makes it very clear that they have the right to delete anything that is not provided by them to the players. You obtain something illegally or someone creates something within their game that is not permitted they can act. It was a known risk when you adopted it and when you bred it.
By the way they added the breeder ID tags… guess what they can track the ultimate creator of that particular sheep.
The ones I gave have my name (all that came from that one sheep/pig) the one I got has that breeders name, and their’s has the name of the person who gave it to them. Eventually that tag stops at one person – Play the game because you enjoy it – play for free or spend real money on it. But understand that the company is making a profit and there is zero wrong with them doing so. If you are so upset over don’t spend money on it (but if you decide to play without paying – don’t B%^$h and complain because you don’t get something).
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
C, really. People who harass people who exercise their right to vent their frustrations AFTER BEING ASKED TO don’t have much of a life either, apparently.
Some of us use this game as a way to wind down from the real life pressures. Which is what makes stuff like this so frustrating, when the fun is sucked out of it. Believe me – I have MORE than enough of a real life for 5 people. Sometimes it’s just nice to get away from it for a while. And I know I’m not alone in that.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Well Zynga…you can officially kiss my ass! You are the greediest bunch of dead beats I have ever seen in my life! We all know what your true intentions are about these so called illegal sheep…you will eventually put them in the market for 120 FC or some bull**** like that, but I promise you, I will NEVER spend a dime on any of your games, and you can take that to the bank! You’ll be lucky if you don’t lose the majority of your players over this bull****!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
Every day I ask myself , why I waste so much time playing this silly game. I was able to collect flashing and mask sheep off the wall and enjoyed seeing what I could come up with. forget it now, this is just another waste of time breeding plain sheep and pigs that just take more room on our farms. I am starting to get very bored with this game and all the problems that come with it. I wish Zinga would take more time fixing other problems with the game and let us have some fun with breeding, we aren’t hurting anyone by breeding cool looking sheep.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
I am GLAD that Zynga put a stop to hackers!! Helloooo
People!!! Did you get the word “hackers”?!?!??
They obviously HACKED the system to produce
The illegal sheep!!! It’s a GAME….in games..
You patiently play and await new arrivals from
Zynga NOT hackers who hacked into everyone’s
FB pages as well!!! Open your eyes!! They are
Hackers!!! Illegally getting info!!
I’m glad Zynga put a stop to it!!! Maybe now we
Don’t have to worry about instability in the gameplay
Due to hackers making their own rules and
In the long run hurting all of us who have
Recently had problems getting onto FV!!! Most likely
Due to what these hackers have done!!!
Bravo to Zynga!!! I, for one, can wait until Zynga
Releases the sheep and I can get my own!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
I knew I had “illegals” on my farm not long after they appeared in the feed. But I didn’t realise it included patterns like stars and camo..I assumed it was just the “grainy” flashers that were illegal…and I was content with harboring them. I’ve played Farmville religiously for a bit more than a year…and have made it to LVL114. But my interest in the game was dropping off. The the english countryside was released and the sheep breeding seemed like it was gonna be rather amusing….till I tried it. Even after spending a buttload of FV cash on every available sheep at market I couldn’t get anything more exciting then a nice teal. Then all of the illegals crossed the border into England and I was in heaven. Saved the game.
Pigs came out and once again I was excited…honestly how many sheep can yo make and delete before it’s all just mundane? So pigs are out and I buy their FV cash boar and start lining up all my little piggies and I’m popping out purple,green,white and pink…over and over again. Once again all of the illegals came rushing on scene,and we could make potions…and it was all good again.
NOW??? I’m done. I’ve wasted my money on this game with exceptionally shoddy service for awhile. But now.. I will not only not be breeding but I’m not playing. The crops can die where they sit and all of the damn animals can starve. Not only will they not get my cash…they will not get my playtime for all of the CRAPPY advertising schemes they dragged us through!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
I am GLAD that Zynga put a stop to hackers!! Helloooo
People!!! Did you get the word “hackers”?!?!??
They obviously HACKED the system to produce
The illegal sheep!!! It’s a GAME….in games..
You patiently play and await new arrivals from
Zynga NOT hackers who hacked into everyone’s
FB pages as well!!! Open your eyes!! They are
Hackers!!! Illegally getting info!!
I’m glad Zynga put a stop to it!!! Maybe now we
Don’t have to worry about instability in the gameplay
Due to hackers making their own rules and
In the long run hurting all of us who have
Recently had problems getting onto FV!!! Most likely
Due to what these hackers have done!!!
Bravo to Zynga!!! I, for one, can wait until Zynga
Releases the sheep and I can get my own!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:40 pm
Well I as well as many of my friends are done our wallets are now closed to you Zynga. I was really enjoying the sheep and pig breeding up until now.
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS ~~!~~ as with horse breeding we protested they brought it back … lets repeat history here ~!BOYCOTT-
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Michelle, I agree that Zynga has a right to make money on it. (Heaven knows I’ve even bought some game cards after swearing I never would.) But as Tracy (a game developer) said above, it is far more likely that Zynga screwed up and the sheep got out of the pen by mistake, than the actuality of Zynga being hacked. What kind of lame security do they have anyway? The hacker story is possibly just their way of trying to save face…
Bottom line, I don’t think these patterned sheep/pigs are going to break the collective Zynga piggy-bank. Zynga just needs to ramp up their creativity and release something different for sale and all will be well again in Zynga-land.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
I feel like my poor little sheep have been neutered. They’re all out to pasture, now. I mean, I could work on breeding dual tone ones, but that’s so not the same.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
Fran Says:
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
C, really. People who harass people who exercise their right to vent their frustrations AFTER BEING ASKED TO don’t have much of a life either, apparently.
Some of us use this game as a way to wind down from the real life pressures. Which is what makes stuff like this so frustrating, when the fun is sucked out of it. Believe me – I have MORE than enough of a real life for 5 people. Sometimes it’s just nice to get away from it for a while. And I know I’m not alone in that.
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The fun has been sucked out of it? Really? Just because they recalled a few unrealistic, ‘seizure sheep’? You know that’s not the case.
I am not harassing anyone. I’m trying to burst the virtual reality bubble of some people that have lost their lives, money and way….all because of a silly game.
Farmville is still good for a wind-down, but not a way of life. The fact that you can’t breed flasher sheep is in no way a deal breaker….whoever thinks it is, should really rethink ****. I know some people who have nothing outside of that game, and it’s pathetic.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
I WANT MY 170 FV CASH BACK I SPENT ON THESE STUPID SHEEP AND PIGS WHEN I THOUGHT IT WAS ACTUALLY GONNA BE FUN BUT ZYNGA PIGS AND SHEEP BLOW BIG TIME. THE ONLY FUN IN BREEDING IS THE ILLEGAL SHEEP AND NOW THAT IS OVER I WON’T BREED OR BUY ANOTHER THING. YOU WANNA TAKE THE FUN OUT OF THE GAME ZYNGA WELL LETS TAKE THE MONEY OUT OF YOUR POCKETS. STOP BUYING EVERYONE, LET THEM KNOW THEY SCREWED WITH THE WRONG PEOPLE. JUST CAUSE THEY WERE’NT MAKING MONEY ON THE ILLEGAL SHEEP THEY GO AND RUIN THE FUN.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Hackers are the real deal…go on youtube and look up farmville hacks…and there is some kind of program called charles or something? all they have to do is sit there and try different codes. sometimes they work, sometimes they dont, but if they figure it out they are off and running with their stolen code. Nice…I am tired of getting screwed over by hackers…
They are all so ****y too that they do post the viedos of what they do and now they arent getting away with it anymore…
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
when I saw the price on the original sheep in the market, I knew that sheep breeding was planned as a cash cow. Not for me, at all, until I started seeing pretty, flashing ones posted on the wall.
My favorite part of the game is mastering the trees……but the price just went up on trees, too! 5FC for a small tree was bad enough, but I paid it. I have to put my foot down and refuse to buy any new trees at the new prices.
I would sure like to get my money back for all the FV cash I have on my farm. I’m sure that isn’t possible, so I promise that I will not buy anymore FV cash after that is all gone.
Put the prices back down on the trees, and don’t charge 30FV for sheep that bring no xp’s or harvest for any worthwhile amount.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
To Amy then I am going to bed as 6 am comes fast….I HAVE spent loads of money….in my post…if you read it ALL said I WILL NOT complain about that at all….my choice to do so….Let me point this out…..NOT STUPID of US to SPEND money…that is what keeps it FREE FOR YOU!!! As will be for my games!!! I have items designed for coins,a nd some for real money! That is the way these games stay free for those who cant or choose not to pay. So please stop attacking people for posting the opinion they were ASKED to give. I do believe most folks posting here lives in countries that exercise the FREEDOM of speech, which again is what we were asked to post here. My only point is that Zynga COULD still place the items in the market for sale….as they will soon I am sure…without stopping the breeding frenzy! There are MANY of the special animals that I have yet to get, and I would BUY them if they were offered. MANY paid players would as well……in a heart beat!! Why attack me, and others for spending money on these games!! Do you not like playing for FREE!!! You should say a polite THANK YOU and not attack us for having the money to spend.
Just a bit about me personally…..YES I am now a game developer myself, and I LOVE the long hours of work everyday listening to my clients and pressing for the launch date so that I can see HAPPY players that see THEIR ideas come to life! I also adopted three small children who were abused in the most horrid ways…..I have nightmares about what they have told in their counseling sessions!! So to spen $20 here and there, and to get “excited” to see what baby I can make with these adorable cartoons is not a lot for me to ask for!! Takes the edge off the horrid facts that I deal with on a daily basis trying to get these innocent children to realize they are loved and are WORTHY to be loved!! The middle child is Autistic and let me tell ya….when his eyes lit up and he named my first flashing ram, I tell ya….I would have paid $100 for that little ram!! It made this child light up when no light can be seen in his eyes because of what life dealt him and his siblings!!
So please, if you want to attack people for stating their opinions on an opinion poll, think before you do so! MANY here have their own life issues that these games gives even a moment to forget that life sucks!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
What the _____?! Ok, so they did not get here “conventionally–but why punish the only REALLY fun thing thats come along in …well, EVER!?
I AM NOT SPENDING ANOTHER FARMVILLE BUCK UNTIL I GET MY HARD WORK IN BREEDING BACK!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:53 pm
Okay, I’ve read the news release and all of the rants. At the end of the day, Zynga is a business. They need to make money from this to hire programmers, etc. However, as a business manager, I don’t think I would have made the decision they have. How or why these sheep and pigs are/were available is immaterial. The reality is…they were. By putting the brakes on, this way, Zynga is risking losing a very large following. They are punishing their game players. That seems very short-sighted, in my opinion. Absolutely they intended to make money from the roll out of “special” breeders, but that didn’t happen. So…go with it. Figure out some OTHER way of making it work. If Zynga has a room full of creative geniuses then surely they can figure out some way of altering their original plan that would allow them to capitalize on their ideas without alienating their market. Shortly after the roll out of sheep breeding, the so-called “illegals” were available. What? They just noticed? Why didn’t they put a stop to it within 24 hours and why would they further compound the problem by rolling out pig breeding when they saw issues with the sheep? They have made some very grave errors in judgment here that have resulted in making their players feel as though they have done something wrong. They didn’t. Don’t punish them for really “getting into” the breeding.
Ultimately, I enjoy Farmville. I would enjoy it with or without the breeding. But as someone who has spent my hard earned cash on it, believing that it was for the greater good of “the game”, I’m finding that I may have to re-think that position. But not because of the game itself; because of the overall shortsightedness of the company’s management.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:55 pm
I’m just glad they’re not going to punish me for accepting two illegal sheep from a neighbor, which I didn’t know they were illegal at that time. I’m looking forward to the star pattern and flashing sheep, but 30 FV cash for each ram is a bit too much for a poor girl like me. I wish there was another way to earn those kind of rams, so I can have some fun too, but for now I’ll have to settle for boring.
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
Watch ,they’ll release the sheep that someone else created, put them in the mystery game, and make a butt load of money off of true collectors and those with a gambling problem. That’s how they treat the truly loyal customers. Sad. I think the mystery game is nothing more than online gambling and should be illegal. I said it before and I’ll say it again!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:56 pm
well how childish can they get its a damb game its makeing more people play so they should be happy its not the only game around so if they are prepared to lose money rather than make it let them
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
Well this truly sux BIGTIME! My farm would not load for 3 full days. Finally got it to load and the following 3 days I could not ask for potions!!! How retarded is that. When England came out…. I thought I would not play it. I didnt want to abandon my main farm. So I decided ok I will use England for mainly just farm land as I love designing and my main farm I was always changing it around because I WAS SO BORED! Then they came out with the sheep and pigs. I had deleted my sheep pen already for lack of space on my farm and deleted my pig pen because it was useless and all it produced was slop lol. No use for that. So I rebuilt them all in time for what. For everyday sheep and pigs? My main farm has hundreds of real dollars spent in there. Go look at it and see for yourself. Now even my england farm has already lots of real dollars in it.Just because Zigna couldnt get the castle big enough I had to buy 2 castles to put them together just to make it look like a real castle. Dang the barn was bigger than the castle you designed. Well I got England looking the way I want it and now wanted a camo flashing sheep. OH WELL I think there will be no more money spent. Just last night spent 3 times on the stupid dart game b4 I got the horse. I have every horse that has been put out in the market. And almost every animal. Tired of fighting a losing battle with yall. I get out of sync ever ten seconds… YOU SAY in your letters that you value me as a customer. Well you need to take a look at each and everyone one of these complaints and see exactly how much money we are paying out. Anyone can complain…. ITS YOUR JOB TO SEE WHO THE COMPLAINERS ARE and to figure out WHY WE ARE COMPLAINING. Are we spending money …….loads …….. of money on your game? or we just complainers? I think for one ……. Im really fed up and seriously considering just blocking the game of over two yrs of playing. I play two things on this computer… FARMVILLE AND MAFIA WARS. I started out playing like 10 games on facebook and now dwindled it down to two. I believe after today it will be not even 1. Im tired of mw also because its just a bunch of clicking. Finally got done with Bangkok and its just more clicking and clicking. Anyways my farmville is telling me I have over 100 sheep. I only have around 30 tops lol. I didnt even get to start the pig game because for lack of being able to load farmville. Guess Im glad I didnt spend money there. I dont think there is an item besides the stipe sheep and that spotted pig that I dont own. And thats including buildings and decorations. My barn has 500 things stored in it. All mostly paid for items!!!Well thats changing after I spend my farmdollars I already have unless yall change your rediculous ways. If it was illegal to make the sheep or pigs ….than you should NOT have let your program allow it in …. in the first place. It wasnt the players that did it!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
DONE NOW THIS GAMES SUCKS WORSE THAN EVER FIRST THE STABLES THEN ORCHARDS THEN SHEEP NOW PIGS ZYNGA YOU LOST ALOT OF PLAYERS!THEIR IS NO MORE FUN IN THIS GAME AND I WILL BE NO LONGER PLAYING EITHER.HOPE IT WAS ALL WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Gee whiz, I have not even started yet and already it is illegal. How about getting the “out of sync” issues fixed so we can at least get our gifts taken care of for crying out loud.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:00 am
I think that it’s stupid.. They are going to lose alot of players, I probably have over 200 neighbors and everyone is highly ill.. It is just another way to cost a butt load of real $$$.. The items cost alot.. They could have at least let the players have the sheep and pigs, that was about the only thing fun.. I have alot of my neighbors saying to boycott any Zynga games, however I still love Frontierville..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:00 am
This just cracks me up to no end. Star sheep are illegal? The ones that were heavily featured in every promo Zynga had for EC? Way to go!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Btw….. I have bred apparently “illegal” sheep (as I know they are illegal now) that were not grainy…. I had two or three that the whole thing is solid and had only flashing stars….. I do know what you are referring to when you say grainy…but there were many out there that didn’t have that grainish/seizure look to them
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:04 am
funny how they can’t stop all the cheating app from screwing up our pc’s if we make the mistake of clicking on one….but they can snoop around on our farms to remove sheep and disable sheep from producing flashing sheep…what ever!
i will not spend any more money on theis game…not even the cash we get for leveling up! this is ignorant bs!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:05 am
Anyone who says “Erp, I had no idea they was illegal, derp!” is too stupid to be playing the game. I saw the sheep too, and it was obvious they weren’t coming from Zynga. And if you’ve been playing long enough to be irked by it, then you clearly should have known how Zynga would react.
And if you say ONLY the sheep/pig breeding was keeping you playing, then I have to ask what kept you playing before that, and before that. If you say that only the breeding of illegals keeps you playing, you’re lying to try and cover up the fact you know you were doing something that was probably a violation of the terms of service.
Just consider yourself lucky if you got away with knowingly cheating and move on.
The bigger issue is going to be the limit of sheep/pigs you can breed. I expect to hear rumblings about that within a week by the same people who were so enthusiastic about breeding sheep/pigs they knew were illegal.
(I do enjoy the game, and only a very small fraction of my neighbors are complainers like what I read above. I guess misery does love company.)
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:05 am
what do i think – i have blocked the game and will not play again until zynga stops this nonsense! i finally got a good pig (a flasher) and didn’t have a clue that it was illegal but find that it only produces boring pigs today – the first i had a chance to breed it cuz i couldn’t get fv to load and i wonder why – fv was busy ****in up the game! goodbye zynga – i am done with ur headaches – u lose cuz i was puttin real money into the game and would have bought a flasher if u were smart enough to put it in the market instead of treating us like a 2 yr olds!
BTW I THINK THAT FV STANDS FOR ****EDVILLE!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:06 am
GIVE IT A REST PEOPLE!!!
It’s ONLY A GAME.
Women who won’t buy their kids an Xbox spend hundreds of dollars on fake farm animals. You spend $4 on a sheep and now you don’t like what it breeds…..CRY ME A RIVER.
There are people in Japan who’ve lost everything, and you’re whining about the color of your cartoon sheep & pigs!?!?!?!?
IT’S A FREE GAME.
You actually thought those SEIZURE-CAUSING sheep were “cool” & “exciting”?
If you were CEO for Zynga, you’d be protecting your enterprise, too! You wouldn’t let hackers change your product….If you would, then download ‘Charles’ and start making your own sheep! Otherwise, GET A LIFE!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Dear Hackers:
Thanks for bringing so much fun to the game for the last few weeks. I love all these so called “illegal” sheep. I often visited my neighbors and had conversation with them to exchange sheep. I found breeding sheep more fun than breeding foals because you never know what you will get. You are the one with artistic vision here.
Dear Zynga:
Today, after reading above message, I want to thank you for giving me back my normal daily routine. I no longer need to set my alarm to go off every 4 hours, planting stupid crops for potion crafting, fight my neighbors to grab the last nursery bottle. Thanks again, Zynga!
If you decide to allow these so-called illegal sheep to be “legal” and to be sold for FV cash, the hackers are the original designers of these sheep. I hope you get sued on the issue of intellectual property.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:08 am
C,
We all have our thing. I know people that buy every horse that is released. They enjoy breeding them and sharing foals with friends.
Me, it’s sheep. I have raised many *real* sheep in my day, and I love the buggers to death. But in a *game* if you don’t have variety, there really is little point to the breeding process (since you can’t cuddle them and play with them for real.) It all becomes very boring, very quickly. ZYNGA led us to believe that there would be more patterns available but that has not been the case. Those who say better stuff will be released for free are kidding themselves.
But I digress. The point is… the sheep breeding was the thing that saved Farmville for me. I was seriously getting bored and now… I’m gonna be bored again. So for you to assert that this isn’t a deal breaker is your opinion. You are certainly entitled to it. Just realize that it might be completely irrelevant in my world.
Good thing I have a wedding to plan, two bathrooms to remodel, various graphic projects to produce and a website to build (all before the middle of July…) as well as being shuttle service for my 17 year old daughter to keep me out of trouble, eh?
PS… be aware there apparently are two of us going by “Fran” in this thread… so not all the ranting is mine, lol
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Well, I won’t be breeding anymore sheep, maybe pigs, since they are new, and I don’t have any of the “illegal” ones…. But, have you never heard the saying, “You can’t go back.”? Well, once you show people what can be made and then try to take them back to “blah” it won’t work. Why should I make plain looking sheep when I “legally” adopted and bred the most wonderful ones. No, my breeding days are over, as far as sheep are concerned, til you allow me to breed all types.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Limeade Youth….AMEN! Well said!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:09 am
After all the sheep and pig breeding hype, Zynga needs to produce some awesome sheep and pigs instead of the boring ones they’ve released. And, Zynga, don’t create something that will cost us Farm cash! Are they afraid of losing money? Hrrrrmph!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:09 am
They took candy from this baby and I am not happy.so I should just be happy visiting the pretty sheep on my neighbors farms!!??I have only one,,some have dozens.This is just mean.I have joined the boycott,Big Z can go suck lemons cuz they are just sour old farts now anyway.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:13 am
There is one way to show Zynga we won’t stand for this – boycott the game.
I have totally closed up my farm and left Zynga a really special message in hay bales on the land.
No matter where the sheep ‘originated’ this was the WRONG way to deal with it. Zynga are punishing their CUSTOMERS. Yes – we are CUSTOMERS… we pay in outright cash or AD REVENUE for their PRODUCT and I would be royally ticked off if another establishment I patronize pulled this kind of garbage.
I encourage those who feel the same way I do to boycott this PRODUCT, stand firm, and send Zynga a message that we will no longer cater to their every whim (or pocketbook).
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150155504136525&set=a.500632506524.271153.633016524&type=1&ref=nf
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:14 am
The Real Fran – Good for you. Enjoy your projects & don’t worry about the sheep…they’ll be there when you get back…probably even more colorful…and free, even!?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:15 am
C,
LOL I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday. I’ll settle for cool sheep that I have to buy!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:15 am
the ONLY reason that they are stopping the breeding is because they didn’t get their cut from us by making us wait to buy them.
pretty damn good. they can chop off the best fun we’ve had in a hell of a long time but they CAN’T OR WONT put a stop to the snaggers.
this ‘game’ has lost so much of my interest over the past couple of months that it’s sickening.
the OOS, the constant need to enhance and refresh, the cost of items from the market.
zynga doesn’t really care a rats ass for the player base.
i am so glad that i have started to get into different non-zynga games lately. i go back to full time work in about 10 days.
i get back to work? goodbye and good riddance to zynga and their small hearted and short sighted pettiness.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:17 am
I have spent a small fortune…of which my husband knows nothing about….on Farmville and this is just WRONG!!!! How did this mishap happen without the DEV’s knowing about it???? I think this is bull****!!!! AND…I will cancel my Facebook account if this happens with the sheep and pigs…the damn game got boring as hell and u livened it up alittle with these features…LEAVE US ALONE!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:18 am
It’s only sheep!!! And a game!!! Get over it!!! Play with your 500 decorations in storage and your 100 sheep and you’ll forget all about the breeding issue!
All you saying you’re boycotting…you won’t do it. Just wait…they’ll give you what you want….geez.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:19 am
C,
For someone who has this great “life” you speak of, you have sure been all up in this forum ALL night, No offense, just an observation. Also, I’ve not only donated to Japan more than once, but I’ve been to Haiti to help with their disaster….. You know there ARE people in the world that can spend money in FV AAANNNDDD spend money on others things, too. SURPRISE!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:19 am
I’ve been discussing this with a friend (Joe, comment 59) and when he emailed Zynga support, they said basically that no one is complaining, so the decision stands.
I have a LOT of trouble believing that with the protestations here, and I’d imagine on the other FV help sites, that people aren’t complaining directly to Zynga as well. So, if you haven’t contacted them directly, DO SO. It may not do any good. But, it can’t hurt.
And, keep in mind, if you scream and swear and just angrily rant, you’ll probably get tuned out. So, try to keep that in mind, and try to REASONABLY state your case to them, as politely as possible, despite how pissed off you are.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:20 am
If this ban on breeding sticks I am deleting all Zynga games and hell will freeze over before I play another one…. I spent 40.00 alone just yesterday on Farm Cash doing nothing but breeding… Im done
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:21 am
Fran – I didn’t think you did!
However…
JANET MCKEEN – You shouldn’t be spending money on Farmville behind your husbands back!! (Sorry, but I have strong feelings about this)
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:21 am
A friend just posted a picture of a farm that had no planting area, just had ON STRIKE, NO FLASH, NO CASH
spelled out in hay bails.
I also went and un-liked the game.
I will be playing and spending my money on Farmtown. never had a problem like this with them.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:21 am
And no I’m not the same Michelle as earlier, #233 was my first post…….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:22 am
SWEET…..give us potions…….than take away the need for them……………..think ZYNGA needs a few baby bottles……………
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:22 am
Zynga fixed it alright. Even the banded (stripped) ram i purchased from the market is producing white sheep. When I first got it I was able to breed it with the grape sheep and got a purple color sheep with the band. And their england ewe with the flag produces plain blue sheep. People do not waste your money buying one from the market!!!!!!!!!!! The sheep breeding on my feed has just come to a halt. Who wants these dull sheep, Zynga wants people to buy.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:23 am
Jus one question, WHY ZYNGA??? For some of us, the “illegal” sheep and pigs are what makes the game interesting. Fire your developers and hire the hackers, They apparently know what we want!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:23 am
I only did this to get the star sheep, which I do have since I got a star starter from a neighbor. Great for Farmville to ruin it. Like Janet, I’ve also spent a lot of money breeding sheep. If they take them away, should we not get refunds?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:23 am
Michelle –
All night? Nope.
Did I say there weren’t people donating to both worthy & UNworthy causes? Nope.
I appreciate your effort, though!! Surprise!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:24 am
I do also think it’s pertinent to note that if Zynga gets all the PAYING customers angry so they quit and are left with only the people who could care less because they play it totally free (bless their self-control!) it won’t be long before the lights go out in Zynga-land. Just sayin…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Hate boring sheep or pig
I would not have bother with breeding if there were only those boring ones…..
I have stopped breeding now until they have more interesting stuff
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Maybe you should fire your lame designers and hire the hackers….they have more talent and make the game fun to play!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Its Just a free game for us to play. If you want up grades you pay if you dont your bored… What the hell is wrong with you lazy cheap so-called players.. What if they charge a fee for play time? its a frickin free game …..The same people that hack game codes are the same people that hack Bank Accounts, they do it for the practice you all should leave the game if you dont believe that….Idiots!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:26 am
People can rant if they want to…and I’m sure everyone feels bad about the people in Japan, but this thread has nothing to do with that…staying on topic would be nice…Understandable that Zynga doesn’t want people hacking into their stuff…but I won’t be buying a flashy blinky sheep or pig from them for FV cash….not happening. Nobody can convince me that the whole hacking thing didn’t worry them as much as all the money they lost because they didn’t come up with the ideas themselves….30 FV cash per piggy and sheepy is a lot of money when you multiply it by a zillion people….everything is about money…and okay, blah blah freakin blah it’s only a game blah blah…but the people who play this game as well as all the other zynga games are keeping them in business….who should be kissing whose butt? hmmmm let’s ponder….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:26 am
I’m seriously considering quitting fv now. What’s the point? It’s not fun without the sheep breeding fun patterns. Now it’s BORING, make that BORING AGAIN. Been playing almost 2 years. Bored beyond tears.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:26 am
I think this is a bunch of bull. I finally get too actually have fun, and they turn around and take it all back. What a crock. I disagree. I didnt get my sheep illegally. Yet we are all being punished because they cant decide what we can or cant have. Whats the point in playing? They just took all the fun right back out, and makes me want too stop playing again. I think they should just let us have our fun and deal with it. Its not like we are hurting anyone. Criminey, get your heads our of your XXXXX and get with the program.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:27 am
Yeah and watch how many farmville followers LEAVE THE GAME cause of this. very cheesy zanga very cheesy way to go wow very impressed!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:27 am
Well this is also my farewell speech.
In the last week, not only did the fun get taken out of the farming, but I lost a dairy farm I bought with cash, with over 20 cows inside, most bought with farm cash. I went to Zynga themselves about this issue and they told me that I was pretty much lying about it. Didn’t even ask if I had any proof of any of the cows or the dairy farm itself. I am done… I never thought it would come down to me stop playing due to boredom or being accused of lying!!
Thanks, Zynga and say farewell to an almost 3 year long player.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:29 am
F zynga ill hack all day n night
not our fault there system programming is kiddie programming and we post our methods online to expose there flaws a hackers main rule is to never make money of the hack and to share as much as possible . when they “patch” a hack it makes us work harder n find more hacks . Zynga makes oney of there flaws which we expose !! u bunch of sheeps babahahabahahah a
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:31 am
I AGREE WITH SHERRIANNE…YOU CAN’T GIVE SOMEONE A TASTE OF SOMETHING THEN TAKE IT BACK TO NOTHING!! aLL WE GET WITH YOUR BORING COLORS ARE FLESH TONES,WHICH GROSS ME OUT BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN WITH A TOUPEE ON ,PURPLE OR VARIOUS SHADES OF GREEN.i HAVE WASTED TONS OF POTION ON BELTED PIGS AND SPOTTED PIGS,POT BELLIED PIG’S,SRAWBERRY,WHITE,FAIRY,CARNIVAL,SHAMROCK AND THEY ALL LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME.bORING!! tHEN,i GOT A FLASHER FROM A FRIEND…..I WAS HOOKED.SAME WITH THE SHEEP.NOW,YOUR TELLING US THAT STARS ARE ILLEGAL ON OUR SHEEP AS WELL? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!! SO BASICALLY,PAY AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR SOMETHING I MADE WITHOUT A HACKER,ON MY OWN FARM USING MY OWN INTUITION BUT IT IS ILLEGAL.YOU BLACK HEARTED MONEY HUNGRY FOOLS.i WAS JUST ABOUT TO DELETE THE APP UNTIL THIS CAME ALONG.WELL,,,,SEE YA! IT’S BEEN REAL!!(ON MY PART)YOU WILL LOSE MORE MONEY THAN YOU MAKE ZYNGA..YOU MARK MY WORDS.PEOPEL WERE SPENDING MONEY HAND OVER FIST FOR POTIONS AND BOTTLES TO SEE WHAT BEAUTY WAS NEXT.nOW WE KNOW THAT AT SOME POINT THAT SAME ANIMAL WILL BE IN THE MAEKET AND WE CAN RESUME WITH THAT PARTICULAR PATTERN,WE WONT BE PAYING FOR IT BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE IT YOU DUMMIES!!! WHAT A BUNCH OF MORONS RUNNING THIS COMPANY!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:32 am
It’s boring. No one wants to breed. You sucked the fun out of it. Why do the hackers know what we want and you don’t. So what, it’s just a game..it was a fun game. Now it’s just a dead wall..no one is doing anything.
It was exciting getting all the flashers and sharing and mixing…now it’s boring, dull..you sucked the fun and life right out of it.
We don’t want to loose our fun and fancy sheeps and pigs, infact we want flashing cows and flashing bunnies…come on, add to it, make it more fun…the hackers knew how to give us more fun.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:32 am
HAPPY FARMING MY A$$!! THIS SURE DOESN’T MAKE ME HAPPY! I HAVE ALMOST TALKED MYSELF INTO QUITTING BEFORE BUT I THINK THIS MAY BE THE STRAW. THERE IS NO FUN IN BREEDING THE SAME OLD COLORS, NO PATTERNS…BORING!!! THERE IS NOTHING FUN ABOUT FARMVILLE ANY MORE WITH ALL THEIR LIMITS. MAYBE THEY NEED TO HIRE THE ONES THAT MADE THE FUN SHEEP AND PIGS. THEY SURE HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO PRODUCE ANY EVEN CLOSE.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:33 am
No I agree I feel so fair and square for these people who made stupid neon-like sheeps and pigs. They look glitched, unnatural and ugly. Have you ever seen a sheep or an ewe flashing lights? If I could see one with star patterns it would seem more normal to me though :/
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:34 am
ATTENTION ZYNGA-PEOPLES: How about this solution?
Sell us a one time user license that will cover all the special sheep on our farms. We can then breed them and make all sorts of cool sheep to our heart’s content.
We can then give lambs to our friends, but the same rules apply. If they want to breed that cool new sheep, they will need to buy a user license to breed “unauthorized” sheep on their farm.
At this point I think that Zynga would cash in big time on such a license (if they could get it to actually work which – as we all know – is a dicy proposition with Zynga, lol). I know I’d pay a *reasonable* fee for this privilege.
Anyone else think this could work?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:35 am
I think Zynga is trying to cover it’s tushie because the flashing sheep caused the MAJOR Farmville loading problem and slow game play last weekend. I think the flashers were not illegal at all. But Zynga didn’t do their homework, like always, and the flashers made the system crash so what do they do? They tell us what caused the problem in a post — flashing spotted sheep breeding was one cause. But wait! Will Zynga take responsibility for this MAJOR goof up? Nope. Blame it on the players. Good one Zynga. You are usually pretty good at eating humble pie and telling us that you goofed and nothing loads because you added something. But now you are turning the blame on to the players…or a few players. Not all of us. Just the core illegal breeders…wherever they are.
Gotta love Zynga. And yet we play. Excuse me…I need to go post for more potion. LOL
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:36 am
I do have to say…..with reading all the other posts….cry me a frickin river……grow up….alot acting like little 3 year olds…when another child takes a toy away….my god..get a grip…if you weren’t cheating….you wouldn’t be making a huge fuss about it…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:37 am
I wasn’t even interested in the EC or the sheep breeding, until the ‘interesting’ ones came out. That’s when I started going there and doing the sheep breeding thing. If they take away my sheep then I’m done with it.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:38 am
i agree with the people that are getting mad over this “illegal” crap zynga is pulling now..i honestly dont think that it should matter what the sheep and pigs look like..the colors and designs are what made everyone want to start breeding in the first place..they’re what people are going crazy over to get..not the white and black..what’s so good about those and why would people want to spend hours at a time breeding the same 2 colors over and over again?? i really dont think its a good idea to take away all of the cute sheep that everyone has been getting.. i know i have a few myself and if i cant breed them anymore then i wont be breeding at all..thats the only reason i play farmville anyway..and im not waisting my “real” money to buy “fake” animals on the game..i need my money just as much as zynga needs there..and they obviously are doing whatever they can to keep theirs and make 10x more by doing this to everyone..i think this is really going to disappoint soooo many players and probably even stop them from spending their cash on the game..i have a feeling zygna will be losing out on way more money by taking these away from us..they wont be making much off of just white and black pigs and sheep thats for sure..i know if i breed mine and they dont come out anything but white i will not be doing it anymore..i will stop playing the game all together and just find a new game to play..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:40 am
Well, Unlike you C, I have a life. And no, I’m not going to play Xbox, like i’m sure you have been doing all day long because apparently you have a complex as a result of you’re mama not buying you one when you were little. So i’m sure when you moved out a 24 it was the first thing you bought. Unless your living in the basement still, which makes way more sense. Don’t hate on us hard working people because we choose to spend our money on what we want to. Same way you do. Whether it be FV or Japan…. And my money has gone to both. Don’t get rude unless you want someone to get rude back. It’s a forum…. definition of forum: A meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged. Have a nice day, and feel free to continue arguing with yourself.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:41 am
This is the most ridiculous thing, having ILLEGAL sheep/pigs, punishing everyone is just wrong. They should have stopped it when someone made them illegally, then it wouldn’t be an issue today. I asked people how they were making them, they made me one and I adopted them, then made more , heck I didn’t know it was illegal to have/make one. So now what, we are all criminals, in a game of all things, pfffttt, whatever, this just blows my mind….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:43 am
Thank you Zynga for hurrying me off to find another hobby. The flashing and colorful sheep and pigs was the most fun I’ve seen in farmville in a long time. I have played this game since it began. Don’t think I haven’t noticed how you’re starting to charge a ton for everything. I guess this means you’ll rerelease these cute sheep and pigs, for 35FV cash each. Take notes, your target market loved them and their tired of having to pay for everything that’s unique or different.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:46 am
I have to agree with C. It’s just a GAME!!! Don’t spend money on a fake farm and fake animals, fake trees, ETC, ETC, ETC!!!! I don’t care what color or pattern sheep and pigs are, THEY ARE BORING REGARDLESS!!!! Who cares what you create!!! What are you going to do once you get 5000 SHEEP!!!!! Sell them for 50 coins a piece?!!! PLEASE…….. give me a break. I am sick to death seeing post after post of send bottles, sheep is now an adult, blah, blah, blah!!!!! I want to see collectibles, XP, eggs!!!! Come on people, that is how you level up!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:46 am
This is so stupid.. as if they had NO CLUE when pigs were released for breeding that some idiot was gonna do what was done with sheep? should have plugged that hole BEFORE release.. not wait until we get legit pigs off the feeds then tell us we can’t breed ANY OF THEM to get only stupid boring colors?? they are acting as though they had no idea this could/would happen.
I love the breeding thing But I”m getting annoyed w how it’s being limited.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:47 am
I’m still surprised that Zynga hasn’t released more rams. The 3 or 4 legitimate ones are OK at best and it’s easy to get bored with them long before another is available.
That Zynga is suddenly taking action makes me wonder if they’re about to release at least a star ram to the market, thereby making our star sheep legitimate. But how long until the flashers and cammo patterned ones are released? Probably a very long time.
It’s pathetic that Zynga wasn’t able to foresee the popularity of a feature people have been requesting since the first 30 days of closed beta and keep up with demand.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:47 am
Join our page & take back the control you’ve worked towards for years
We WILL be submitting to Zynga!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Farmville-loyals-want-control-over-our-animals/111229392294743?v=wall&sk=wall
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:47 am
I could not read all the posts! But wow so many have made very valid points! I saw that they would put a “star” ram in the misery game…really?? I think this was a scheme created by Zynga all along!! I am sure someone has said this but what better way to make more money!! Tease your customers and then take away…..but wait….that’s right you can BUY IT…FOR CASH NOW!!! Forget it! I am so so sick of the Dart game anyway and their price hikes on everything in the market!! Also, they put a free item from Christmas in it!! What the hell? WELL I AM TRYING TO TALK MY FRIENDS INTO BOYCOTTING ALL ZYNGA GAMES!! ANYONE CARE TO JOIN! BTW…where can I direct a complaint too and to whom?? Thanks anyone?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:48 am
I agree with most of the above posters ~ hire the minds that came up with the electric, flashing sheep. They were making the game fun and exciting. I won’t bother with the plain ones. Take a look at the numbers over the past month, Zynga, (and the dollars spent) and watch them drop like a rocket now that you have taken away this option.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:49 am
Talk about stabbing us and rubbing salt in the wound, now they will release these for cash. I’ll be damned if I pay a single penny!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:49 am
im ready to quit playing farmville and any other zynga game. this is the straw that brok ethe cammels back. first was teh fact the banned me from the forum for speaking my mind on how the game is being run. i was accused of swearing and thats something id idnt do at all on the forum so now i have a lifetime ban because one of their moderators dont like me because he or she is a complete asshole. now to see this with pigs and sheep, how the heck are they illegal when you cant determine what comes out when you breed them. and for the people who keep crying about the people being cheaters theya rent cheating they are playing a game. just because you rats arent skilled like these people who breed animals the way they do dont make them cheaters it makes yopu rats and youa ll ought to shut up. your gonna screw yourselves in the end.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:50 am
It is no big deal to me because no matter what I chose to breed, I never got the starred sheep, the flashing sheep or the neon sheep. I guess because I am just a regular player of the game and my friends didn’t send me any of these unique sheep that I really don’t see the big deal. When they do release these other sheep than eveybody can enjoy them not just a select few. Fair is fair. If we all can’t have them then why should anybody else have them.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:50 am
Come on…:O All of you act like little children. Get your asses off if you don’t want to play FV again. You will return back as always.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:51 am
zynga is a t*tty baby. they fuct up by having holes in their system which allowed them to be hacked (just like the holes in the game) and then they shut the fun down for everyone cuz they didnt get their money. i never thought that i would find a corporation as greedy as walmart…but zynga takes the cake. zynga…my esp shows bankruptcy in your future. you ass.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:51 am
You guys are freaking disgusting! Threatening to leave a game because they WON”T LET YOU CHEAT?! Wow. I can understand whining because everything cash, or the prices keep going up, but… Zynga LET YOU KEEP your sheep/pigs that you grew up after obtaining through a feed, and just made it so you can’t breed them any more. They’re disgraceful to farms, and are eyesores anyway! (flashers, at least – those are horrible quality)
You whine and throw fits because Farmville recolors ponies funky colors, and then you whine because Farmville won’t let you make eyesore sheep and pigs…
You guys have made me speechless. It pity anyone who is so involved in breeding pixels like this that they actually quit. I’m pretty sure everyone here is just whining to whine though, like usual.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:51 am
It amazes me that *some* people can show such ignorance. Zynga even admits that those of us who got the sheep through legitimate means are not cheating. Too bad these people who like to sling mud can’t read.
Consider also, that some people claim they got these patterns as a result of breeding two ho-hum sheep together. Not the wild ones but some of the patterns like the stars and such. And now they are illegal? No. Zynga screwed up, and let the stars out of the bag. So don’t be telling ME to cry you a river. Get off your Zynga is infallible bandwagon and join the rest of us who HAVE a grip on reality.
Hmmm… or are these Zynga defenders merely plants from the home office?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:51 am
LORI! Well said, girl!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:52 am
All I can say is Zynga won’t have to worry about selling me another thing. When you’ve bred 100 sheep its finished anyway. They’ve had a good run but I think they’re on a downhill slide. The market items just get uglier and more expensive, the new rules weekly. the constant problems and loading issues, you’d think they were trying to make people quit. They may just get their wish this time.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:52 am
wait a f’n minute. So now all the yellow with different color stars rams I have are just yellow rams??? So I have eight damn yellow rams??? I wouldn’t care, but that combined with the 100 sheep limit is LAME. REALLY LAME.
Fluff right off, zynga. I will NOT be buying anymore fvc until this is fixed. Give me back at LEAST star sheep, or you will NOT get a cent more from me. And Ive been spending between $30-$80/month on this game for the last six months or so. And I know there’s people out there who spend a LOT more than that who are also not going to give zynga another dime until they stop ruining this game. I c’mon – DON’T “FIX” WHAT ISN’T BROKEN!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:53 am
^
Level 83
I was pretty envious of those who had the cool sheep (flashers, etc) because I cannot afford to put money into this game…although I have splurged a couple of times to get a few things I really liked which couldn’t be bought by doing hard work.
I assumed (without ever looking through the market) that these cool sheep were paid for.
I never did get one of the good ones but I am having fun anyway, except for the fact that I can’t get enough bottles or potions.
I think Zynga should just go ahead give the people what they want and release all the cool colors and patterns.
And as many have said before me…fix the bugs
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:54 am
This has to do with them accidently allowing these to get released as I read this little wording here ” that they did not INTENTIONALLY release.” in other words these were in system to be released at some point hmm interesting.. so how are these illegal if they are in the system and someone jumped the gun? I know the “illegal” sheep came out al ot of MODS on forum site had those star sheep days before any of us got a hold of them.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:55 am
Have you tried to name your sheep an “illegal” name yet? Farmville would not let me name a ewe “Shelly.”
Can someone please explain that to me?
P.S. Zynga – those flashing sheep and pigs are adorable. If you would just release them, and make them legal, clearly they are loved.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:56 am
This is a nice forum, but you should send all of your angry letters & posts to the Zynga forums & even directly to their business offices. Otherwise, all your griping just goes unheard & ignored, except for people in this community.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:56 am
LOL Claire… speechless? Seriously? Just sayin…
Remember: One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. I happen to like those sheep. And I have as much right to like them, as you do to despise them. Try to keep that in mind, will you?
And at least one of us I know of (that would be me) actually posted a solution to this mess, not that Zynga (or anyone else) will ever read it…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:58 am
I love the comments about people losing their sheep or that the patterns or effects have disappeared. Uh, no, they haven’t. The situation sucks, but don’t try to make yourself out to be more of a victim than you really are by lying. Zynga is very specifically NOT taking your sheep or removing their patterns or effects. They’ve just blocked the ability to pass those things on UNTIL they release rams with those things themselves. And it sucks. But don’t lie.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:00 am
Shelly –
Believe it or not, I think this is why. Take the S and the y off your name and what are you left with? if an “illegal” word is contained within another perfectly acceptable word, it is still banned for the “naughty” word it contains.
For example… i tried to name a sheep “Picasso”. Take off the Pic and the o and you can see why my name got banned, lol.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:01 am
If Zynga had not had all these color schemes embedded in their code no one could have bred them, so if they are illegal they really need to check their code. But now that they are out why not just let them be out? Also they say the only pigs legal now are spotted and plain… what about the striped on splash screen? What is that supposed to be… a tease? See what is here that you can’t have?? It is all utter BS. Make sure your code is secure before going live and this won’t happen……..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:02 am
Nice to know I wasted alot of potions trying to get some star sheep. And was getting pissed when they kept coming out plain. WTF zynga? Own up to your mistake and allow players to use what they have already obtained “legally”. It’s not our fault you didn’t want certain patterns released yet. Why would I even want to breed sheep if they’re boring?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:02 am
Fran – It’s actually a web designer program called ‘Charles’….Google it. it’s pretty interesting.
Michelle – Are you for real? I moved out at 24 because my mama wouldn’t buy me an Xbox? Talk about Judgy McJudgemeister..wow!
You know nothing about me…maybe you should go back to bitc*&ng about your sheep?????
Everyone confused about the ‘illegal sheep’ should check out GOOGLE…it’s a really cool site!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:03 am
zynga thats y u stop breeding colorful lamb or piglets cause no one to try buying ur boring ass design. ur facking damb stupid azz. Dont be greedy . ur already stealing some fv cash when the appl dont keep and track their fv cash… hopely who owns this business die to hell …
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:04 am
Flora Says:
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:41 am
So now what, we are all criminals, in a game of all things, pfffttt, whatever, this just blows my mind….
Fran says:
HAHAHAHAHAHA Maybe we all missed our calling Flora. Maybe we should be playing Mafia Wars instead!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:05 am
Whoever actually hacked the game code to illegally release these patterned sheep and pigs actually just made Zynga a free fortune. Think about it: hackers don’t get paid for their work, but players sure spend a lot on potions and bottles to breed. If Zynga had just kept their stupid mouths shut, they could have continued getting free development work done while making huge amounts of profit off the players who kept chasing the newest colors and patterns.
Instead they decided to throw a hissy fit and alienate a lot of the (paying) player base, while their “legal” and highly-paid developers can only produce a clearly inferior product.
Who’s their CEO again? I used to think s/he was pretty slick, if disgustingly unethical, but at this point it looks like maybe an assistant manager position at a McDonald’s is really more their speed. Great job, chairmen of the board; I’m sure Mom & Dad are thrilled that all the money they spent on your MBAs has gone to such spectacular waste.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:07 am
Doreen –
I agree totally about the splash screens. And that was one of my beefs: the star sheep that are now “illegal” were on the original promo splash screen for sheep breeding. Guess they got sent to the slaughterhouse by mistake…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:07 am
Hilarious Shelly…. tried to name mine Sexy and it wouldn’t let me!!! I had to laugh…..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:07 am
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Farmville-loyals-want-control-over-our-animals/111229392294743?v=wall&sk=wall
This page WILL make it to Zynga! Trust me!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:07 am
After reading the update agian ~ so, Zynga is possibly planning to steal the idea of flashing electric sheep from the hackers? a bit ironic isn’t it?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:09 am
Wait… C? What? What’s a web-designer? LOL I think there are too many posts now, I can’t match replies with posts any more >.<
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:10 am
NO ONE WANTS TO BREED THE LAMB IF COME OUT PURE WHITE EWE.. OR PLAIN PIGLETS. SERIOUSLY ZYNGA DUMB FAK. DO U THINK PEOPLE WANTS TO BREED THE BORING PLAIN WHITE LAMB. GET A FAKING LIFE WHO EVER OWNS THIS BUSINESS GAMES… YOU SHOULD STOP THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME CAME OUT.. AND U LET THIS HAPPEN FOR LONG TIME. CAUSE NO ONE WANTS TO BUY UR PLAIN BORING RAM… COME ON NOW. UR THE KIND OF STUPID ZYNGA…. U DONT EVEN CARE TO THIS PEOPLE PLAYING FARMVILLE. ALL U CAN THINK ABOUT U LOOSE MONEY CAUSE . PEOPLE LIKE THE FLASHER LAMB…..I TELL U WHAT ZYNGA I MAKE YOU WHITE LAMB AND U CAN PUT UR FAKING AZZ THE WHITE LAMB. HOW DO U LIKE THAT. ZYNGA.. UR FAKING MORON AND GREEDY..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:11 am
Oh & Michelle…this is not a forum
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:15 am
C…. I haven’t said anything on here about sheep…. # 233 was my first comment……I haven’t b!t@H#D on here about anything but your rudeness. And in case you forgot your previous comment about the Xbox, you said it, not me…twice in fact.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:16 am
Fran – Check this out … http://farm.hackers.am/sheepdesigner/
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:18 am
C,
this is a forum, what else would you call it?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:18 am
Wow, then what is YOUR definition of what this place is???
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:20 am
Michelle – You took it out of context. I said there’s a lot of mothers that are hooked on Farmville, spending cash, that wouldn’t buy their own kids an Xbox. How that relates to me, I don’t know. It’s not a childhood issue for me, I’m older than that.
Find someone else to argue with.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:22 am
Absolutely Ridiculous! Way to make people stop playing! I through crafting and samples have over 120 love potions in my pub I was breeding and sharing like mad. Did not hack anything yet I am punished like so many others. Another aspect of the game I probably won’t be playing. I am so close to quitting all together and they just keep giving me more reasons!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:24 am
They didn’t get money for the neat sheep so they are punishing everyone for their shortsightedness. It’s sort of like “It’s my ball and you play my way or I’m taking it home.” Yes the game is Z’s, but when something is introduced that so many love and work to get they should jump on the wagon and work with it, not against it.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:24 am
I think this is a big lessons for Zynga…so many people were totally into the breeding of the great looking ‘illegal’ sheep and were finally have fun again and helping neighbors left and right…I thought that was one of the intentions of this game, wasn’t it? to help our neighbors….
And this is an opportunity for Zynga, they have to release the “illegal’ sheep (and pigs) as soon as possible, the have found the hack, so should be easy to work this out, and also release more of those “crazy” looking sheep, because that’s what the players want!
Zynga Pay Attention to your PLayers!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:24 am
No, I didn’t take it out of context, I knew what ya meant. You struck a note with me with the whole Japan thing, is all…. I’ll calm it down if you will…K? I think getting on here and reading everyones posts at once kinda got me fired up….then I got to yours…..Struck a nerve. Truce???
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:25 am
@ Fran – Speech=/=typing.
Fyi. One uses the mouth, the other uses fingers.
And also, like them all you want, I don’t care. Just don’t whine because a company is stopping people from doing something ILLEGAL to obtain them and spread them. You got to keep your funky sheep and pigs – Zynga could have easily, and reasonably, deleted them all and just refunded you bottles or something. I really don’t see why everyone’s panties are in a bunch. You feel like you’re being punished because you’re not allowed to breed illegal sheep? How exactly are you being punished when you’re abusing something that shouldn’t exist anyway?
Say someone pirated a movie. I got a copy, made more copies and spread them to all my friends. If I got caught, I’d get in trouble. I wouldn’t get to keep the copies either. But here Zynga is, letting you keep it, and only messing with the original problem… Yeah, that’s real punishment.
Boo hoo, you’ll have to stick with “boring” colors that people were so excited for originally…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:26 am
http://forums.zynga.com/forumdisplay.php?f=91
THAT’S a “forum”.
This is a blog-type site, with an area available for public comment.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:28 am
Wow this is really gay. Zynga, for the love of god…what the heck are you doing?? Your pushing ppl away from the game…and charging for alot of stuff that should be free…i am thinkin about quiting now, cuz this is becoming stupid.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:29 am
Truce is good….I’m going to bed! Have fun complaining to no one, ya’ll
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:29 am
if it aint broke, then fix it untill it is.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:33 am
SERIOUSLY ZYNGA!!!!!! Here is the reality …. you may not have released these colors and patterns but to take them away to potentially release them at a later time will not benefit you financially later on because NO ONE will buy these colors and patterns from the marketplace because they can obtain them from their friends and neighbors through the news feeds.
The fact that these colors and patterns are such a hit that so many players are willing to spend their hard earned money on the items needed to raise these colors and patterns should more than compensate or make up for that loss…. especially in this economy…. because there are players who have spent their money to raise these animals when they ordinarily would not have spent money on this game.
CONGRAT”S on managing to find away give some players a reason to STOP playing the game. Some players were bored prior to these animals with the colors and patterns you have deemed “illegal”.
ZYNGA …you have made it very apparent that you do NOT care about your game players and ONLY care about your bottom line …. the Almighty Dollar.
A word of advice from a player …. rethink your actions …. you might lose more money by your actions.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:34 am
These people aren’t complaining, sometimes we just need to vent.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:34 am
This is the biggest load of Bullocks BULLS…T!!!!!! ever. zynga you are losing the plot and sucking the fun out of this game ..
GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED GREED !!!!!!!!!!!
this is the real truth !
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:39 am
LOL!!! I think they are complaining….but yes, people need a place to vent, even if no one is listening….. sometimes that doesn’t matter
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:47 am
Well plain and simple will not be doing much on my farm till they get around to letting us breed colored sheep and pigs again. Silly business.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:57 am
Why is everyone praising the hackers like they made the sheep? They didnt make anything, they stole it!! Please learn this…they use that stupid “charles” thing any found what someone else had worked on and STOLE it!! Why is that so great? They stole someone else’s art and effort, then passed it along. Hackers are not the artists!!! Hackers are thieves!!!
Quit harping on Zynga’s “holes” in their system. Anyone and any company is at risk of being hacked. Zynga deals with this all the time and they just closed a hole. You take shots at Zynga but why dont you all look into what has happened to the Playstation Network for the PS3? One would think the big guns at Sony would be protected from hackers…well they arent.. PSN has been shut down for a week now because the network was breached. If it can happen to Sony it can happen to Zynga.
And for heaven’s sake…IT IS A GAME!!! If you want to put money into it, go for it. If you dont want to pay, you can most certainly have a great time for FREE!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:00 am
And yes, as well as complaining here I also emailed Zynga (Duh, to people who made the comment that no one hears us here)….and got all my money back for sheep breeding costs….Yes already…..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:04 am
I have googled to get info and ended up on the cheater websites. They state if you can make a cheat, some of the Devs will help you get it into the Zynga code. Specifically, gamers unite was talking about sheep breeding, how to cheat it (note the Devs helped create the program used to recode Farmville that gamers unite uses) and if you figured a way to code a different type of sheep; the Devs would help implement it in the coding so the code didn’t have to be changed everytime.
Maybe Zynga needs to clean house with their employees before they start charging outrageous amounts for their animals. There are a lot of people who can not afford the animals and enjoyed getting something new by sharing with neighbors.
I can understand why they are limiting the illegal sheep breeding. It would be too difficult for Zynga coders to implement the genealogy program.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:07 am
this is bs!!!! i agree with alotta the comments!!! and zynga u are going to lose alotta money and players!!! and wth is up with coming out with breeding pigs now anyway when the geneology part of the sheep breeding is STILL coming soon!!! im real close to quitting!! i also have three players in household/ fix it or your going to lose ALOT of players.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:10 am
You Know Zynga….I have been sick and tired of all your BS….first no one can have more than one horse stable…then what was it….geeze always something for you guys to bitch about…First of all …..most of us are BUYING things WITH our MONEY to you…not to mention you make billions on advertising….come on dudes enough is enough….WORRY ABOUT ALL THE STUPID GAMING YOU HAVE AVAILABLE THAT I CAN NOT PLAY BECAUSE THERE IS ALWAYS A GLITCH IN THE APPLICATION!!!!! I have tried to play so many of your games….and quit because of the stupid slow applications etc your gaming staff seems to never be able to figure out….NOW you get people interested in what I think is really a pretty boring and stupid application…yes I play…but was really getting BURNT OUT on farmville…along with most of your games….So stop the BS……let things be…and put your energy in fixing your stupid games that you people never seem to be able to accomplish…example, treasure isle….cafeworld……frontierville….always some kind of problem with them,,,,I quit playing….Why dont you people quit the stupid stuff and focus on the important issues…I think I have had enough of your BULL…..and to think I logged in today to buy a person a gift card for their birthday….after reading how you are treating your fans….I think I will never buy anything from you again…sorry Teressa…I will get you something from someone who cares about you….OBVIOUSLY ZYNGA IS ONLY CONCERNED WITH THEIR INCOME…..NOT THEIR FAN BASE.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:21 am
This whole thing with is just silly…
Once the sheep & the pigs were out there, what was the harm in that ???
Where Zynga apparently saw a problem I personally saw something that brought Farmers closer together…
I saw people breeding & sharing animals with one another and helping their neighbors and friends out
Right now all they seem to be doing is punishing the majority of the players for the dishonesty (or whatever) of just a few…
Funny how they can’t seem to stop the hacking of their own system and it happened with both the Sheep & Pigs
(if there system was having problems they shouldn’t have released the pigs so soon)
Bring the sheep & Pigs to the market and let people start breeding again
There was a jump in people playing because of the Breeding and that’s gone now
(This whole thing makes Zynga look stupid, Two Hackings in a row… How Safe is everyone’s Credit Card Information after everything ???)
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:23 am
i like it really i think it look cool when they are all these bright nice colors and they blink it look like glitter love it i just wish i could get mines to look like that
lol thanks desiree<3 <3
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:28 am
I have received some of the cool flashing, color changing, stars and etc. And actually if I was to breed plain discolored sheep or pigs, well that would have been short lived! So boring the kind of sheep and pigs that farmville has for us! I’m glad that somehow i got the funky cool looking ones! After all who wants boring stuff! This is a game that we want to enjoy! Not be bored with the same old stuff! Wake up zynga! You’re just upset that you didnt think of it first so you could charge us for it!!! We want the cool flashy different eye catcher stuff!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:30 am
Summed up its like getting a camaro then the next day its a escort.
We deserve compensation for all the countless hrs procuring potions and bottles, I say we strike. Harvest what you have then delete your plots and in haybales say how you feel then submit as the farm of the wk. REVOLUTION. I have already posted in the forums. Who’s with me?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:30 am
It was bad enough that they limited one per day adoption, what fun is it to raise plain color sheep & pigs? They should at least give us something better to work with that a green pig…..I am sick of this, Im not even interested in playing, what is the use of gathering potions? to raise white sheep & pink pigs…..Oh well maybe I will get work done, they are making it easier for me to back away……….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:35 am
I just got a plain white ram today. His parents were star/flasher (dad) and plain brown (mum). I thought he would be at least brown or something, but white.. right. I think I am done with the breeding now, at least for some time. I don’t fancy breeding white sheep/rams, sorry Zynga.
I do understand that Zynga doesn’t like it. It’s their business and someone stole the code and started to breed sheeps that they were planning to release later. But what I don’t understand why it took so long for them to do something about it? We were breeding flasher sheeps for what.. two weeks and Zynga did nothing. They should have been a lot quicker with this.
Also, a bit amusing how people say they won’t play this game anymore and I think some of them really stopped playing. But currently the boar in the market is one of the best selling items. So.. it seems some people were just ranting and now they buy the boar cause they wanna breed more. This way.. Zynga never learns…
I’ll just stich buying the horses I like and I’m happy
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:38 am
Why is everyone praising the hackers like they made the sheep? They didnt make anything, they stole it!! Please learn this…they use that stupid “charles” thing any found what someone else had worked on and STOLE it!! Why is that so great? They stole someone else’s art and effort, then passed it along. Hackers are not the artists!!! Hackers are thieves!!!
Quit harping on Zynga’s “holes” in their system. Anyone and any company is at risk of being hacked. Zynga deals with this all the time and they just closed a hole. You take shots at Zynga but why dont you all look into what has happened to the Playstation Network for the PS3? One would think the big guns at Sony would be protected from hackers…well they arent.. PSN has been shut down for a week now because the network was breached. If it can happen to Sony it can happen to Zynga.
And for heaven’s sake…IT IS A GAME!!! If you want to put money into it, go for it. If you dont want to pay, you can most certainly have a great time for FREE!!!!
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SORRY ZYNGA DIDNT CREATE HASH CODES NEITHER!!!!! hackers are not thieves we exploit there mistakes and share. and what di dhackers gain out of shuttnd dwn sonys servers? how are they thieves? lol its a free server blame sony !!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:43 am
lol charles is not a web designer lol its a web debbuger proxy zynga programmers use it to !!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:45 am
HTTP Proxy
An HTTP Proxy is a server that receives requests from your web browser and then makes the request to the Internet on your behalf. It then returns the results to your browser.
Charles is a simple HTTP proxy, which enables it to document each request and response between your browser and the Internet (making it an HTTP Monitor).
this is what charles iis
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:49 am
Charles helps to debug a wide range of web problems. Below is a list of Charles’ features:
Cookies are shown in the HTTP headers, so you can see exactly what cookies you are sending and receiving.
Every request and response is recorded in Charles. Redirects that are often too quick to see when testing with a web browser can be seen in Charles. Requests from applications other than your web browser (such as Flash movies) can also be seen.
Request and response sizes are shown in Charles, so you can see how big each request was.
Assets loaded from an HTML page are recorded so that you can see how many images etc are loaded by a page, and where from.
All files can be viewed, including JavaScript files, CSS files, HTML files etc.
Mirror all responses to disk, recording your session.
Blacklist sites so that requests are blocked.
See the results of caching by seeing cached responses (304 Not Modified), and requests containing last modified dates (IfModifiedSince).
Disable caching by removing cache related headers from requests and responses as they pass through Charles, ensuring that you are always requesting the latest file.
See whether a cache has served your request by looking for cache-hit HTTP headers.
View encrypted HTTPS traffic in plain text. Enables you to view requests and responses in plain text even when communicating with an SSL secured web server.
Reveal unexpected requests, such as typos and 404s.
View requested images.
Bandwidth Throttle your web connection to a specified bytes/second speed, and millisecond latency. This enables you to simulate modem conditions on a high speed internet connection (bandwidth simulator)
Spoof DNS name to ip mappings so that you can test a domain name before it has gone live. Very useful for testing your virtual hosting.
Export to CSV all of the summary data captured by Charles for analysis and reporting in Excel
Reverse proxy creates ports on the localhost that act as regular HTTP servers, but forward all requests to a specified web server.
HTTP 1.1 support – including keep-alive, chunking and content-encodings including gzip, compress and deflate.
External proxy support – configure an proxy for Charles to use to access the Internet
NTLM authentication support (Windows NT Challenge Response Authentication / Integrated Windows Authentication)
Automatic configuration of Windows Internet Proxy settings.
Search all headers and bodies for keywords.
Port forwarding support, allows any protocol to be forwarded by Charles and debugged.
Unicode and other charset encoding/decoding support.
AJAX debugging (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) and XMLHTTP debugging
AMF parsing to help debug Flash Remoting
Firefox proxy autoconfiguration
Automatic Update Checking
Charles reveals everything that takes place on the web. See the screenshots page for examples of the above.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:52 am
Probably THE ONLY REASON ZYNGA HAS STOPPED THE “illegal hahahahaha” breeding IS SO LATER THEY CAN START TO SELL THE SHEEP AND PIGS FOR FV CA$$$$$$H , they should be called K-$HiNGA not ZYNGA $$$$$$$ !
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:55 am
If my family’s bank account is compromised because of the idiots that hacked Sony, that seems like they theived something….and according to Sony 70 million people are at risk, that isnt stealing? I mean the link below says it all: Hacker stole user data.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/26/playstation-network-hacker-stole-user-data_n_854106.html
sure PSN is free, but so is FV….people want to attack what many people use for free to get to sensitive information, be it a flashing sheep or a credit card number.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:02 am
Well, I’m done breeding sheep and pigs! I’m also done spending any more money on a game that is gradually becoming more frustrating and boring than fun and enjoyable. Goodbye Zynga!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:02 am
THis is the last draw!!! I´ve been a good customer to zynga buying my horses. NOW I wont buy ANYTHING WITH FARMVILLE CASH until I get my breeding back. NOT ANYTHING!!!!!!!
Zynga aren´t making money on those sheeps and pigs..we get them for free and are good neighbours to each other and are helping each other.
And then it´s illegal!!!???
My god, money making aren´t everything Zynga…this time I feel like : what the hec am I playing this for ????? Why am I giving zynga real money?? to be threated like an child??
Nope, I will not breed or buy anything with FV cash until Zynga stops this ****
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:03 am
I was so happy when I received those cool flashing rams and ewes from my neighbors. I even begged to be given those cool looking sheep when I first saw it on their farms.
I used to buy all the different kinds of sheep before sheep breeding was introduced and I even actually bought the other sheep that can be bought at the marketplace for breeding purposes (dotted rams, banded ram, colored ewes). My gripe is that why is it that when you breed the banded or dotted ram with the original assorted sheep that zynga gives us via different quests or whatever we need to complete thingies, the offspring turn out white or black most of the time ???? What’s the use of bringing out all those nice sheep if we end up not even having the colors or patterns of the parents?
That’s the reason a lot of people got excited with those illegal sheep or pigs – it made the breeding exciting and not boring.
I’m ashamed to admit it but I DO spend at the marketplace for anything and everything that I like but now that they keep jacking up the prices for everything in there. I have decided not to spend anymore money at the marketplace and will also play less often.
I DO NOT condone what the hackers did. It’s a very bad thing. I think it’s a lesson though for zynga to rethink about how they price the items at the marketplace and to be more creative. Just my two cents
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:05 am
****WITS.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:05 am
fa1l3d: I am so terribly happy for you that you are smart and can do many amazing things with this Charles program, whatever the heck it is. I dont care about its technical outline. However, you said it yourself:
“SORRY ZYNGA DIDNT CREATE HASH CODES NEITHER!!!!! hackers are not thieves we exploit there mistakes and share. and what di dhackers gain out of shuttnd dwn sonys servers? how are they thieves? lol its a free server blame sony !!!!!!”
What did you say you do? Exploit their mistakes and share?
Exploit: To take advantage of (a person, situation, etc), esp unethically or unjustly for one’s own ends.
Doesnt sound very good to me.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:10 am
no it does not say that they said ” they might ” and to me thats just an excuse for there system getting hacked . and if u google more into it they are mad because the ps3 finally got hacked and jailbroken .by the guy who hacked the iphone! and they sued and settled out of court ! the next day there servers got hacked !!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:23 am
thank you, zynga!
now i will be able to return to my official work, and not spending time (and money) on farmville. i never managed it to do with my own power, because i am soooooo addicted, but now i can reduce the game to a “normal” amount of time…
you made it boring, should i buy another horse? oh no, looking for a new tree? boring, too. craft love potion? what for…
you take the fun out of the game, the surprises… i am very disappointed….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:33 am
Seriously….are you guys trying to get people to stop playing your ****ing game? What is the point of sheep breeding now? I have tons of the “illegal” sheep on my farm, and I want to breed them. I did not hack them, I did not steal them. I should be able to ****ing breed them. It’s not my fault that you guys lacked the skill to protect your stuff from getting hacked.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:35 am
Do not like this because I play ALOT on fv and these pretty pigs and sheep r one of the reasons I play. We only adopted pigs and sheep from ppl some were as u stated. I spend money with my 2 daughters and son in law who also play. And to b truthful we about ready to go bk to playing pogo, There r many issues not fixed that we deal with daily and try not to complain but to ask 4 help.And if having there pretty pigs and sheep make us happy I think they should continue to b put out for all to use and not (buy) them . It just wrong!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:42 am
Ok, It’s annoying that we can no longer breed them cause i was on the english farm to breed sheep, but they were hacked plain and simple. you get to keep the sheep you have bred, they arent taking that away, so when they do get released you wont have to pay for them and you can still gift them to other people, so really how much money is Zynga going to make off of this, so think about it. I wouldnt put it past them to never release them for that reason though, cause i do agree that they want too much money for things, and even limit a few items to iphone users only which i think sucks as well…but its a game and people shouldnt get so worked up.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:44 am
come on.. make the game intersting…Im at level 55 and boored. maxed out on farm machinery, bees, storage, chickens and have 200 orchards, 32 tree masteries and 9 million in coins… give me somthing spend it on… new greenhouse crops, 1 Million for a flashing sheep.. Hey charge me a million for a new tree and 20 million for a 30X30.. Give me something to work for
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:51 am
Yeap. Zynga kept their word. No more flashing or star sheeps for Me
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:58 am
Zynga have shot themselves in both feet, people are saying that zynga are not making money by selling the illigal animals in the market, I however have spent loads of cash buying potions and bottles to breed from the iligal animals, now all i get is crap I wont be spending any more money untill the fun returns.
zynga now lose out
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:23 am
Adios Farmville, I will find something more interesting to do. For me it looks like Zynga is aware that people will abandon this game and is trying to make the more money possible while they can. It is just making this movement to happen faster. It was good while it lasted. Oh, I had illegal sheeps which were fun and I hated the legal pigs. Just ugly and ridiculous.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:29 am
THTS ALL I QUIT FARMVILLE
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:31 am
I am going to call it like it is.
People complain about Hackers.
People complain about Zynga.
But lets put truth where truth is.
The two are both in a battle. Only the hackers aren’t getting paid, when Zynga is.
Ok, now that we have sorted that out. Fact this game should be called “Farm Wars”, but someone might sue do to it sounding much like a popular science fiction movie.
Now, here is the bottom line. Normal MMO’s, what they call multiplayer online games, charges only a monthly subscription fee, at max $20 a month, to play a game.
Fact a game called (Star Trek Online) comes to mind. Which is far more complicated then Farmville ever could be, was selling a life-time memberships for $299. They also only charge $14.99 a month. Hmmmm.
Also, something is seriously wrong with a company that makes money off people being, “Beta Testers” for its game, then charging them, or taking money from them to test their game, and all of this done, just to work out and find their bugs. Please!
Here is a fact of reality also. Do you realize normal company’s pay “Beta Testers”, or let them ALL play for free and have all of its features?
Oh but wait, now we have a company that makes money off ads you take part in too, and toss you just $2 Farmville cash for it, while they make $2 real cash for each ad. Then they also make money on marketing items too, YES, to push movies in the theater, insurance, or sell other products. Fact, lots of well known brands too. While all this money is going to Zynga.
Yet, I’m sorry, if anyone is seriously feeling sorry for “Zynga” now. Lets just point this out too. They are… just now a month later concerned about “illegal sheep or pigs”. Oh sure. Now that no one is spending lots of real money for their potions to raise these sheep or pigs so fast.
Do you really think it took them over 4 weeks to stop this? That it would take that long? NO! It could have been done in just a couple days after it started. No… they waited, and on purposes cause they were racking in the profits hand over fist on people spending money on potions and bottles.
Yes it is GREED and they have become what looks like an “Evil Empire.” More like a pregnant pig.
What they are really concerned about is the Jennie was taken out of the bottle way to fast, and they wanted to milk it out for all they could. As they know they have nothing but a “CASH COW” going on.
Now, if any one feels sorry for Zynga, then you are really a FOOL, and you need to write me a check for $1,000. Just for writing this out and putting light to the truth of how things really are, and what is going on.
Fact maybe if they make a pig with a big RED Z on it’s belly I might buy that and breed it. Yet I am done. I am done with the ridicules actions I have seen go on with this game for going on almost two years now. I wont be spending anymore money of this game. Not after all that I have seen go on and the lack of integrity of this company.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:34 am
you know if were not getting any cool sheep and pigs anymore its not interesting im just gonna stop breeding, why not just turn the breeding off, you know people were having fun untill now cuss all were getting are normal sucky pigs and sheep so why even bother to breed.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:52 am
I love breeding sheep and pig and don’t have illegal breed ones. I do however have a teacup pig and a saddle back/ black and white pig that don’t breed thier patterns Farmville sucks for this reason. Yeah for getting rid of como sheep & pigs they looked crap anyway!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:04 am
Thanks Zynga, You just gave me a good reason to quit playing. I will not spend money or time to just get plain pigs and sheep.You should have released your own cool sheep and pigs before you did this.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:05 am
ZYNGA JUST DOING WHAT IS RIGHT AND FAIR…
iT IS THE MISTAKE OF THE STUPID PEOPLE WHO BREED ILLEGAL SHEEP AND PIGS COZ MAYBE THEY WANT TO BE PRAISED BY THEIR NEIGHBORS…
it’s their FAULT WHO BREEDS THOSE UNRELEASED SHEEP IN ADVANCE!
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Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:04 am
Whoa, I can’t believe it… all of a sudden only one neighbor is playing the game. From a wall filled with farmville clicks and links from a lot of neighbors to a single one. The funny thing is that, that single neighbor’s last post was why the heck are all my sheeps and pigs turning into boring animals… hmmm then there was none.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:12 am
At least they didn’t take our flashing sheep/pigs off us right? I’m sure A LOT more would complain if that was the case. Still not happy with this though, I only got a flashing pig yesterday and was excited to start breeding! :/
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:15 am
@Nancy 4/26 @11:37
Oh for the love of hackers hello bonanza!
These illegal sheep breeders were not compromising your glorious and precious “information” on your “farmville”. You probably just believe that because you’re one of those people that click on those grossly obvious fake farmville posts in the news feed that install spam applications, which ruins and spams the news feed for your neighbors. Go ahead and enjoy spending your farm cash on the most bland sheep and pigs possibly conjured, while you twiddle your thumbs and bow down to the almighty Zynga.
It’s too bad the fun with breeding has ended. Adopting lambs isn’t even worth the risk of wasting potions or bottles. If I want a plain white sheep, I can just buy one from the market for a few hundred coins. Unless, of course, the price changes to 55 farm cash tomorrow (which isn’t far off from happening probably).
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:15 am
Not only do I think Zynga is ridiculous for doing this, but I find myself even more angry at all those whiney players who complain constantly about “illegal” animals (seriously, illegal?!) and supposed cheaters. You know if you look though the Zynga FV forums you will come across a multitude of these posts and I’m thinking Zynga is just giving into them. Sadly they are not considering that the majority of us have been very happy with the new sheep and pigs! Lame lame lame! Stupid move Zynga.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:21 am
Well I actually spent money for the first time because of these new animals but I won’t be back on Farmville for a while. This is quite the turn off. I understand what Farmville is trying to do, but you just can’t expect us to downgrade back to ‘ATARI’ when we’ve been playing with ‘PS3′ for two weeks! Sorry Farmville, I’m out! See you in a few months to see if the cool stuff is back!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:28 am
Well this just bites. I have an 11 year old who has been having the time of his life breeding the animals to get unique ones. He comes home from school to run to farmville to see what he can do. We spend a fortune on FV cash so he can enjoy his farm after school. Now I have to be the one to tell him, ” Sorry honey they’ve taken it away” After he spent hours on it and has been so proud of his farm. He loves animals which is why he is so attracted to this game. All I can say to Zynaga is “SHAME ON YOU”
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:34 am
What I think is that Zynga is full of people who only care about money. They’re pissed off about the people who can’t afford (or don’t want to spend the money) to play this game and get the pretty things that other people getting to have lovely little sheep. Well, what this did was make me finally quit. Greedy, money hungry, douche****s.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:50 am
Well it appears there are 2 things happening here. Greed by Zynga, and Jealousy by the whiners that complain that everything they don’t get, must be illegally obtained by others.
What is so wrong with letting us breed the nice looking sheep & pigs, compared to the boring ones you are now allowing us?
Zynga, you want us to continue playing, yet you put so many restrictions on everything we do, and when we start to have a bit of free fun in a so-called free game, you put a stop to it.
Everything that is fun in FV, it seems we have to pay for with real money one way or another. I myself have had to buy FV cash a few times just so I could continue keeping up with all the things you offer. We don’t have time to collect FV cash to buy the items because you don’t give us much opportunities to build it up before the items are expired. Yes obviously this is a blatant way for you to get our real money, but I have stopped buying FV cash now, because I was lead to believe this was a free game, and I don’t think I even want to play FV anymore.
Between all the glitches, the limits, the whining about cheating and breeding illegal sheep/pigs, and all the dangling of the nicer things that are only available for a few days, ALL the fun is now gone out of this game.
Zynga,,,,,pay attention to what the majority of your players want!
Whiners about cheating etc.,,,,,,,,Get a life and realize, “No one is hurting you or your game by having nicer items/animals than you do”. It’s a game, not a competition!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:52 am
what????????? farmville sucksssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
no more farm purchase f
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:58 am
http://masteringfarmville.blogspot.com/2011/04/zynga-stole-our-fun-no-more-flashing-or.html Zynga took our fun away. Go to my link and then click “Share” on Facebook and/or Twitter. Let’s let them know how we feel!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:01 am
I seriously can not stand Farmville anymore. All they want is money money. It took 7 e-mails from me to finally get my sheep pen fixed because i was unable to breed sheep like everyone else and they kept telling me to “wait it out” instead of fixing it. I just got my sheep pen fixed a few days ago and now i cant even breed the cool looking sheep that all of my neighbors have… this is just ridiculous!! I am not going to waste my potions on normal plain sheep and pigs .. mise well not even play at all! Bad idea on there part to get rid of this because people are spending money on potions to make these cool sheep. Do u really think there going to buy them out of the market for farm cash when they already have them.. DUMB*** FARMVILLE!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:07 am
Zynga has gotten money hungry. I have put out a lot of money to play this game but stopped spending money when prices doubled the price on animals. I was given some of those flashing sheep and pigs, I loved breeding them because they were not boring. What they put out on the feed was boring. Mos tof the games don’t work half of the time.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:18 am
Sad… Got my FIRST blinky! …Oh well we will just have to wait and see!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:20 am
Oh my. I’ve read most of the posts on here and some have thrown around the terms “hackers” and “cheaters” quite frequently. There is praise for the hackers and a number of people are slagging on their FV neighbours, calling THEM cheaters.
Nowhere has Zynga stated either openly or even covertly that they were “hacked”. The phrases “Certain types of sheep and pig colors/patterns not yet released have been improperly distributed in FarmVille…” and “the intention is to stop the distribution of colors and patterns that are not currently intended” imply that these breeding elements are Zynga’s but that there has been a MAJOR programming glitch and these elements were prematurely released in a manner that they did not intend. What has happened here is merely an ACCIDENT.
As to calling your neighbours “cheaters” with a holier than thou attitude, that is simply WRONG. Those people have built breeding pens, purchased and crafted love potions (at real cost, for some) and bred and obviously did what is expected of players of a social game, SHARED the proceeds. Those so-called “cheaters” are actually the ones who spend money on the game. They are the back-bone and the reason Zynga can continue to give the basic game…for FREE. So please remember WHO you are slagging on. You may find that the next time you need to collect “x” number of items to complete a quest that will score you some cool reward that they will remember your accusations and send you….NOTHING.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:24 am
Due to disagreement with Zyngas “handling” of the illegal (?) sheep/pigs issues ( only a last straw for me actually..) I am boycotting ALL PLAY /ALL APPS for now. I understand this may upset my neighbor farmers & friends, but enough control freakin’ is enough FOR ME.
~~~ON STRIKE ZYNGA ~~~ FACEBOOK~~~~
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:25 am
I got my first “Blinky” from a friend as a lamb, reared it and bred it and got a lovely Blinky ewe, then I bred those two and got a third (another ewe). Then I bred her and got this really neat banded ram with stars. I did nothing wrong and now Zynga is telling use these “Blinky” sheep are illegal. . . WTF is their problem? If the code wasn’t there to generate these animals then they wouldn’t have come about. Much like in “real breeding efforts, if the genetics weren’t there it wouldn NOT have happened, not even with the rare “sport” that, due to the random matching of certain genetic information, come about. Seems Zynga Code writers may be part geneticist and have been able to duplicate the DNA sequence that allowed for these “mutations” in the first place. Like the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Apparently it AIN’T (really) BROKE, so leave it alone! Who knows, maybe the program will come up with something the developers didn’t think of!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:31 am
I posted a request for potions this morning… NO ONE bit lmao! Guess I can’t be mad if some of my neighbors remove me from their list, considering I won’t be playing the game anymore, either. Nice knowin’ ya!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:31 am
I am so over Zynga and their crap. I am done! Their crappy sheep in the market are not affordable, not to mention butt ugly, to those of us on SSI, disability and such. Without the so-called illegal sheep people like me would have been left out of the fun. Zynga…so nice of you to take the fun away from shut ins like myself because of YOUR freaking greed. You can sure be proud of yourselves now. I think the people that made these cool sheep gave you a lot of business not to mention made the sheep and pig breeding fun. Now…well I am DONE! Your mama’s must be proud!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:33 am
I am done playing until this is resolved. I have paid for several of my sheep. I have also bought potions from the market. I have acquired some of the illegal sheep through news feeds without knowing they were illegal. I bred them to my legal ones and bought potions and bottles to do so. I think this is complete BS. I feel like I am being punished for something the hackers did. Yes i do think they are the ones that should be punished, but why take it out on us because of a breach in security on their part? i am going on strike from breeding anything until something is done. I am taking many of my fv and fb friends with me.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:45 am
I acquired my sheep and pigs by tradeing with friends and neighbors we all worked hard for our animals and to have them taken away by no fault of ours is just plain stupid I will no longer try to breed animals I will continue to Raise trees, collect eggs and all the other boring lame stuff until I just get so bored that I cant stand it then I will return to farmtown and let farmville sit just thhe I did when it first came out it was boring then and appears that it is going to contine to be boring. Well Zygna I hope you enjoy your game because it is apperant you dont want us to so I will go find something more interesting to do ……cya wouldnt want to beya
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:46 am
THIS SUCKS………………I WAS JUST GETTING EXCITED ABOUT THE NEON FLASHER PIGGIES……THEY WERE SO COOL….I DON’T WANT TO SPEND MY TIME BREEDING AND GETTING A DUMB TAN PIGLET……GUESS I WILL WAIT AND SEE IF YOU IMPROVE ANYTHING…..
GOSH I LOSE HALF MY POTION ANYWAY, NOW WHY DO I WANT TO WASTE WHAT I STILL HAVE…….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:48 am
Boring!!! I got my flashers from the news feed. It’s a royal pain trying to get bottles for breeding anyway. Guess I’ll start using my time more constructively, ie, not playing stupid games so much.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:58 am
THIS REALLY SUCKS !!!!! I GUESS IT’S BACK TO “BB” (BORING BREEDING)
I will not breed anymore ! I just can not beleive they are doing this !!! I can’t beleive they let you use them for how many months then take them away !!!!! ok go breed yourboring sheep and boring pigs…I won’t !!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:01 am
I like sheep and pigs so I do not think right now we were enjoying the game, if it continues I will stop playing this game
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:17 am
BOOOOOOOOOOOO Zynga That is the most fun I have had is checking out the cool sheep and piggies. I am so disappointed if the flashes mess up the game play fix it. It is fun, and brings a smile everytime I see the cool new look of the sheep and pigs. Come on give us out flash and patterns. Make them work with the game and have fun with it. GIVE US OUR FLASH and our PATTERNS. Don’t take the best part of the game away
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:19 am
I have Farmville deleted. Thats my Konsequenz!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:21 am
I blame the Ninja Squirrels and their Acorns of Doom!!!!! CURSE YOU NINJA SQUIRELS for your attack on Farmville!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:21 am
very disappointing, but we should remember that if we got them legitimately (feeds and our own breeding) they’re not taken from us or changed to something plain; we just can’t breed fancy ones for now; when they release them, they’ll breed fancy again (allegedly, lol), so it’s just a waiting game now, lol…
not that i’m not upset; i’m SO VERY SAD that i can’t breed color changers to share!! BLECH.
Zynga, hurry up and release ‘em already…lol… ;P
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:23 am
WOW…If Zynga was smart they’d make their own blinking sheep n pigs instead of making their players pissed off at them! The only reason they stopped it is because they werent making any money off us!! I will not buy your plain purple boar for 30 FC now or any other day! 30 FC for a blinker.. well thats different lol. Good luck selling your plain sheep and pigs!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:29 am
This is BS if my cool sheep are gone because I bred one that I got form a feed with other ones I am going to be pissed…also I love how they the only pigs that are legal are plain and spotted but on the loading screen they shot belted ones.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:35 am
This is for those here who can’t stand other people spending real $$ on the game. Yes we spend money and we’re not ashamed of it. At least I get satisfaction on some level in seeing beautiful pixels on my farms and the ability to share their offspring with my neighbors of whom quite a few have become friends.
It’s not our fault you can’t afford to spend the $$ or don’t want to. I could really care less. You’re the first ones ASKING for us to share. Most of you won’t return the favor, you just WANT WANT WANT, but won’t give in return.
And for those who claim we don’t have a life… Most of us who do spend real $$ are ones that can afford it, have a great job, family, and a life outside FB and FV. I for one don’t do drugs, don’t go party and get ****faced every frigging weekend, I don’t smoke and don’t spend my money on booze that leaves NOTHING but foggy memories. My only vice are good quality coffee and FV. Oh I need to change that statement… good quality coffee is now my only vice.
Stop hating us who share ~
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:37 am
It’s official I am done spending money on farmville. I put up with their crappy daily limits without even complaining but this has done it. The one thing I enjoyed was breeding the cool sheep and pigs. Spending, I don’t even want to say how much $ on potions and then to have it taken all away. CRAP…Not one more cent ever am I putting into this game, not on horses, sheep, pigs, anything. I AM DONE…..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:39 am
Flashers
I am truly upset I loved breeding the flashing sheep and PLEASE LET’S NOT CALL them illegal give me a break. We spend a ton of money with Zynga and finally something comes up that is really cool and they want to take away the best part, Zynga we put up with all your issues I think it is time to give us a break and let us have our fun, we deserve it. Everyone needs a bit of bling in their life. WE WANT TO BREED FLASHY SHEEP AND PIGS. Fix the issues so we can.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:56 am
Well all i can say is thanks for ruining something really fun,, and for me and my friends breeding has STOPPED period and for Potions were NOT BUYING ANYMORE WITH FV CASH SO enjoy not making any money, and pissing alot of ppl off. This is so messed up you started it and now we got to pay for it , lovely well back to playing other games now, farmville jus got way boring .
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:02 am
This is the 1 thing that made me want to play more. I have tried and yep no more flashing/strobing sheep. I don’t think I will breed anymore at all. Sheep or pigs.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:05 am
-.- just one word…dumb…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:11 am
Zynga you take the fun out of every thing I love farmville for finally giving something worth playing for and now you take away the fun part of it and that is the breeding of pigs and sheep in colors flashing, Afraid your not going to make the all mighty dollar!!!!!! You dont give crap in eggs anymore just crap plain and simple. So all in all. UP YOUR BUCKET
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:13 am
I stopped breeding ……
No more fun to get unexpected plain colored sheeps.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:16 am
I got a illegal pig from someone but now all I can breed is stupid plain sheep colors
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:21 am
OK guys….I have to post as I got that sleep I so needed lol
Listen…..As a game developer of TLC Gaming, and founder/owner, I do understand why it would upset FV that these were released before they wanted them to be. But they were released, and now they are out of the storage closet and folks are having a blast with them. I, too, have seen a major drop in FV posts on my live feed. So this is actually going to hurt the finances of the game. My artists get paid for their work when they submit their work, not when I get rich from them…..so that post wayyyyy up there about “how would you like to have your art work stolen and not get paid for it” is plain ignorant! They got paid when they sat at the drawing table…..or at least I would think they did!! I dont believe Zynga runs a sweat shop with 5 yr olds doing the work for $5 a day LMAO
OK with that said…..Zynga has a dilemma, what to do now…..well for starters why did you wait until money poured in for the breeding tools THEN say “OH NO WHAT’S HAPPENING” lmao it does not take WEEKS to know something is giving a HUGE boost to your bank accounts Zynga! Give your artists a BONUS from all the extra you have made!!! Also it seems to me that this could be one of those “Find the good in the bad” type situation here……Let’s see how this COULD have went…..
OK someone, either legally or illegally, released these animals before planned….hummmmmm OK lose customers over only having those ugly animals, or take this as an opportunity to make LOADS from it still….HOW???? OK look at it this way….MANY spent money for bottles and potions…yup me too…..and tried to get not only the right pattern, but the right sex. Get a girl….oops I wanted a boy, out of potion, so I’ll spend 10 to get another chance at the boy! MONEY MADE…
Zynga wanted those patterns for real money in the market….PUT THEM THERE ALL AT ONCE NOW!! Believe me when I say…Folks will buy them STILL cause the cheat apps snag the babies before a human can click on them…
OK so you just profited from breeding TOOLS and a one shot purchase from those who really want them and want them NOW…….Money Money situation there.
I do not understand the ones on this opinion blog that put down folks for posting being upset here….I have noticed MANY of the rude folks DO NOT have a clear understanding of the term “Free Play” on these online games. It is FREE for YOU because me and a billion other people PAY!!! OMG can folks really escape that reality!! My games I am developing will run the exact same way!! MANY will truly play for free, and MANY MANY will pay to play….how else do I pay my Artists, tech support staff, Programmers, Office Staff, Developers, Designers, pay for the Dedicated Server which is a HUGE expense, the programs and modules needed to make the game work, for the energy it takes to power the MANY computers it takes to have the game up and all the MANY MANY other areas of expenses to have a game. Even the most simple game with NO moving parts takes a small fortune to run each year!
Get OFF the bandwagon of slamming folks for paying them getting angry that the service they PAID for is halted with NO compensation! Not OUR fault these animals were released too early! Might not be the CEO’s fault either except for not knowing what is going on with his/her game!
I am soooooo blessed to have my registered users who are patiently awaiting our first launch! They are a loving group of people and this global group grows in numbers EVERY DAY because I update them with EVERY step of what we are doing and how long and why it takes that long to get it done! I FULLY intend to PLAY my games and level up as my players do so I know what it is like to actually play MY OWN GAME….maybe a safeguard Zynga could opt for then they would KNOW what is going on with their games and get the bugs squished MUCH earlier than they do!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Breeding the cool sheep is what brought me to my farm everyday and I was looking forward to getting and sharing some cool pigs. Now I find out that some of these special sheep and pigs are illegal and now we can’t breed them and must go back to breeding boring sheep and pigs!! I just started breeding the pigs and it was no fun, a waste of potions, and they are boring!! I was looking forward to breeding some cool pigs but now there is no point. I have already stopped playing all other Zynga games and thought I’d give FV another shot once the sheep breeding came along and I WAS having fun. I play games to have fun and relax but ALL Zynga games have become frustrating and now have to many rules overshadowing their games. I have given Zynga so many chances they didn’t deserve to earn my loyalty as a player and they have failed at every chance given!! I have had it, I don’t need this kind of frustration, Zynga can take their games and stuff them where the sun don’t shine!! I’M OUT OF HERE permanently now cause the feeds are going to be dead once again cause Zynga SUCKS THE FUN OUT OF ALL THEIR GAMES ONCE YOU GET HOOKED!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:24 am
i think it is wrong to take away our ability to breed sheep that we obtained in a legal way…as a gift. the flashing and sparkling was the best part of sheep breeding. just add sparkling and flashing sheep to the market and let us breed our sheep. we don’t want to breed plain and boring sheep after having the fancy ones. zynga…you are making a BIG mistake in how you are handling this. i believe you should fix your system so that this cannot be done in the future, but the many ones already out there should be left alone and should be able to be bred like we have been doing. you are really taking the fun out of this game!!!!! kindly re-think your position!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Grow up, people! You complain when people are cheating and Zynga does nothing about it; you complain when Zynga does do something about it. FarmVille is a free game, Zynga makes the rules–period. If you don’t like it there are many other games out there. Everyone knew that the flashing/masked/camo sheep were illegal. Zynga is well within their rights to make all of these sheep revert to plain white; I think it is very generous of them to let us keep the ones we have. As far as the ‘first’ ones that were made–there’s a program out there called ‘Charles’ (and probably a few others) that will change the computer language to make an item anything you want it to be. I do have some illegal sheep on my farm, but I also have plenty of colors that were bred long before someone gave me a color changer. As far as paying for potions; I currently have 170 potions in my pub, obtained by making them and sharing with my friends. So if you are paying Farm Cash for them, you’re doing something wrong.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:26 am
Guys, i don’t know what you are talking about. They shut off breeding of flashers? Camo? Neon?
They just turned off breeding of OFFICIAL COLOURS AND PATTERNS AS WELL!!!
I never had any of the hacked sheeps on my farm. I had a ram I bought from the market (white with purple polka dots) and a yellow ewe from the FV market too, both paid with FV$. And since yesterday i only get sheep WITHOUT any pattern even if both parents are dotted ones.
That was one bad move too much, Zynga.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:27 am
punished? i thought this was a game. u know fun? zynga must be hanging out with bloomberg!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:28 am
Zynga…I paid to get a purple spotted ram, a yellow, orange, pastel green, and pastel purple ewes in the beginning of my breeding, because I wanted different colors to use!!! Then I received a few lambs from some very kind neighbors, that were stars, camos, electrics, strobers, and color changers. I have made, and shared quite of few of the now “illegal” sheep. I will not be doing any more sheep breeding.
As for the pig breeding, I own a saddleback pig, among others. Do you mean to tell me that we are not allowed to breed this pig and not get the saddleback effect? I am not buying any pig with FVC, like I did the sheep!!! I may have purchased the last FVC that I will ever buy for the rest of the time I play the game, which may not be much longer!!!
So, if I am not breeding sheep and pigs, the only thing left is horses, and I quit breeding those a while back!!! I guess I will stick with trees!!! That’s the only thing left that is some what fun!!!
Thanks,
Another dissatisfied Zynga game player!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:43 am
Simply put…Zynga is pi$$ed they didn’t steal this idea from someone else before it showed up on their game.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:44 am
NOT ONLY DID THEY TAKE THE COLOR CHANGING AND ALL AWAY…..THEY TOOK THE SPOTS AND BANDED PIGS TO….AND THE SHEEP ALL MY SHEEP COME OUT WHITE NO MATTER WHAT I BREED……I AM DONE WITH FV UNTIL THEY FIX THIS CRAP
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:44 am
I made new friends and some friends from different countries I wouldnt have changed that!! If it wasnt for the color changing sheep and pigs that wouldnt have happened!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:44 am
How the heck are my star sheep illegal. You guys gave it as a St Patty gift. so that was no accident. I want my star sheep.. lol Really who cares.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:46 am
Probably I’m one of the few people that are happy of this.
Why cheat in a “stupid” (I like farmville, but in all way is a game) game, why must have all immediatelly and not wait when they release it?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:47 am
i can breed my flashy and stars one
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Thank you Zynga. I will get playing so glad you fixed this problem. I’m sick of seeing illegal sheep. I do have star sheep that were given to me but have not been breeding them. As for the pig – just getting started with them. So happy there will be no problems with them. Happy farming everyone!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:50 am
FarmTown Rocks – Zynga games, not so much. I quit spending real $$ here long ago, since they just keep jackin up the prices. I don’t own any “illegal”" sheep or pigs, and don’t care if anyone else does either. Farmville takes too long to advance in levels ( I’ve been on 98 forever ) and can get really expensive really fast if you want their flashy goodies. I’ll not bother breeding anything and just keep pluggin towards 100 for free ( and then I’ll quit and go only to FarmTown).
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:51 am
I’m not ecstatic about all this, but frankly, I prefer this solution to Zynga simply deleting all our nice “illegal but received honestly” sheep and pigs.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:51 am
@ Ninjarichard ~ The only reason the game is “free” for you is because we spend money to pay the developers so you can play. Step away from the computer and stop bitching about the people who are paying your way!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:51 am
Two words, Zynga: EPIC FAIL
Stop trying to PRETEND to be taking a stance against hackers to “protect the game”. It’s all about profits. You’re pissed because your plan to sell patterned rams and boars failed thanks to illegal breeding. You don’t even try to hide it. You put the damn star sheep in the next misery game, obviously as the rare prize.
But I do have to say thanks. Thanks, I don’t have to waste my time breeding any more. Thanks, I don’t have to spend any more money on this game.
You fail to understand why people play your game and what makes it fun.
Have fun weathering this storm, Zynga.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:54 am
For those of you that are confused about how the “illegal” sheep were bred, they did not come from a leak, disgruntled employee or regular breeding that produced a cool animal. Hackers used a “sheep designer” program to make them. With that program they could decide what color, pattern and style they wanted. Just so everyone is clear that these different sheep did NOT come from breeding two normal sheep, or get leaked by Zynga themselves.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:55 am
Zynga sure knows how to take the fun out of their game. What’s the point of breeding white sheep! Maybe if we’re lucky once in a while you might get a different solid color. Pffft! How stupid is it to take away a feature that makes people want to play FV more just because they lost control of it? If it was a glitch that released the so-called illegal sheep to begin with, why the heck to we have to be chastised for it? And talk about punishment? What is this … elementary school? Zynga needs to change their corporate mentality before they entirely ruin what started out to be a good thing. I’m baffled by their behavior!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:57 am
Beyond absurd ! Were the stars and colour change sheeps the ultimate difficulty to program ?! Don’t be ridiculous Zynga… You had a leak, period. Capitalize on it ! Add some new ewes and Rams ! Paisley, flowers, whatever !! Don’t you have enough imagination !? That’s a really really stupid move.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:57 am
Well maybe Zynga can let me in on how to breed a white polka dotted sheep. I have been trying for weeks now and all I get are white sheep. Boring!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Zygna…First of all.. We the people that play your game are your EMPLOYERS. You work for US. If we didn’t spend our hard earned money on farmcash , you wouldn’t have a job.. So guess what …No more money from me heehee. I will stick to Pogo where they don’t force you to buy anything and you can play hundreds of games for FREE. And just think how much memory I will be saving on my computer and no more hackers and fake posts will be seen. TaTa Zygna
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:01 am
I agree with all the comments i have read so far…ZYNGA you guys are friggin stupid…You have millions of players and you get sooooooooo much money from each player that plays your game …like so many others , I have also spent hundreds of my hard earned money on your games and sadly i could of payed less for a PS3 game and have the game forever and not needing to keep spending more money to be able to buy the the new things that come out on the market!!!! and on that note, once again greed on your part , you can’t even give us the option to pay coins on so many things in the market …i say WTF??? “greed”so once again ZYNGA your stupid , your gonna lose many players and i can’t blame them cos i’m gonna be one of them people to stop playing your games if your greed doesn’t stop!!!!!…you change the rules all the time to suit your friggin pocket book , i suppose you can call that “greed”? This is all bull**** and i know many will back me in this latest matter
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:01 am
Illegal sheep were made using a program and editing Meta code not by putting the plain sheep in the pen. There are tons of bugs in farmville that makes it possible to hack half of the game. zynga is just pissed they didn’t discover the process first. I don’t see them ever releasing flashing sheep, star sheep, camo sheep or any other fun sheep. they will stick with the same boring thing like they always do.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:09 am
Cheers to the hackers, they are the one that made all the awesome colors and variations. I think they deserve all the credit for this and not zynga. Maybe the hackers should make a farmville, I bet it would be alot more fun and fair.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:09 am
Oh just crappy that they stopped the cool pig & sheep breeding. Bunch of hooey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jerks!
Well it was fun & cool & not from Zygna (illegal pis & sheep) No wonder they were great! What do we keep playing? I figure Zygna was making no $$$ …Why would anyone need to buy a boar or sow, ram or ewe, etc… if they could get a better color changing one….Greedy Zygna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:11 am
I think the pig/sheep breeding is absolutely STUPID.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:11 am
Obviously Zynga plans on releasing these and charging you money for them which is why they stopped it. If they do after all this I will for sure quit the game! I agree with most who posted it made the game fun and worth trying for those and Zynga has ruined that now! I have all the lame ones already and I was looking forward to breeding the special ones since I just had one gifted to me and they took that away and the excitement away as well. Complete dissapointment!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:12 am
im just as upset as the next person over not beeing able to breed the sheep but really? if its that big of a deal then please, dont play anymore. with the over 30 million people who do, the few that will be school kids and not play wont make zynga close down. they had a problem and they need to deal with it. to tell you the truth im sick of the breeding thing now. if they want to do something new, how about the sheep that have hats or tails can transfer to the baby? sounds good to me lol but im not going to come on here and yell or cry over pixles.yes i will still buy fv cash and buy the stupid animals and decorations that my husband shakes his head at me for every time i buy the card lol this is a game after all. yes i have some of the sheep and like them alot but come on…….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:12 am
jesus christ it’s a game get a life people im glad they stopped it as none of my neighbours were kind enough to post any lambs 2 giveaway anyway don’t like it don’t play no 1s holding a gun to your head making you play
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:13 am
I’m not angry about this but I do think it is pretty silly on Zynga’s part. I mean, does anyone else feel like a kid who had a toy taken away from them because mommie or daddie didn’t want them to have it …yet?
How ARE these funky critters illegal anyway? Were we suppose to buy them with Farmcash, but oopsie?
I won’t miss the flashers, masks, and camo’s in bright colors, I prefer the weird mixed hues the best anyway, but still… this takes away so much for so many people it’s just a really bad call.
By the way, why is it when I breed now all my colored and patterned non-illegal sheep are giving white lambs??? That’s going to be fixed, right?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Zynga can go to hell I am done with your ****ed up games. Kiss my white ass good bye
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Personally, I’m kinda glad that FV changed the sheep, and pigs to plain black, and white..I played this game, anxiously awaiting the new items to come out, and yes spending way too much money on the horses and mystery games. I am soooo bored with the pigs hunting truffles, and that stupid animal trough. I truly thought that we were going to catch rare and exotic animals in it, but as usual it was the same old stuff that we already had. Boring!!!!
So to me, this just means that I won’t be spending any money, so that helps. I donated to the Haiti program, and all the special crops to raise money for charities. So I figure, wahoo, I’ll be saving a lot of money!!!
Farmville could have easily let us catch the unusual sheep, and pigs in our animal trough, make it exciting to try to trap something good. They spend so much time asking us for good ideas, but we never get compensated for it.
When they had the brown lamb to reunite with the Mother, you had to ask friends to help you. All I got on my list were either people that didn’t play the game, or people who had quit.
Same with that dumb Detective Bureau on Frontierville. We’re suppose to go out looking for people who quit playing. Kinda sounds like Zynga wants us to do their work for them for free..
Every time I see a special offer, it’s for the people who have left, trying to get them to come back. Well don’t they know that if these people quit playing, they’re certainly not going to be checking in to see if they received a free gift..Why don’t the faithful players ever get something special just to show their appreciation to us?
I’m sorry to rattle on so long, but this has been building up for a long time..Yahoo summer’s coming, and I’m ready to move from the farm!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:23 am
You all have to understand what Zynga wanted to do. They slowly feed you lousy rams and sheep with each release being just a little bit better then the first one. Then charge you higher farm cash for the so called premium sheep. Like the horse you would be able to adopt but not reproduce that was their master plan. It blew up in their face with sloppy coding. Now they saw all their dollars going bye bye.
What they don’t see is how many people were buying potions and bottles to get these sheep that people sent out. I can’t blame Zynga because they are into it to make money but they handled it all wrong. Just wham. Bad PR.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:25 am
I personally understand that cetain people were able to breed “illegal” animal patterns but I think that stopping those that have received the thru others and feeds is unfair. It has made more people play and excited to try things as well as make friends become closer by sharing more and talking. Though may have been done in the wrong way, it actually helped Farmville grow! I had never spent real money on farmville until a group of us “neighbors” decided to each buy some things and share and then began sharing with people we did not know before and getting new friends to join in because it was exciting and fun, by stopping us from sharing the “odd” colors, and patterns Zygna is stopping the progression of the game and people’s want to be a part of something fun.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:29 am
I will no londer be breeding anymore sheep!! theres no fun in breeding PLAIN SHEEP!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:30 am
I just wish they’d have allowed the base camouflage sheep patterns to remain. I understand that it might not have been intentional on Zynga’s part to release that pattern, but if it doesn’t flash, I don’t see the harm in keeping it. Even the “base” star pattern.
If they are taking away so much then they should, at the very least, make it possible for us to breed the legitimate sheep and pigs to obtain the coloring and patterns as shown on the start up page. Otherwise it seriously hardly seems fair.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:31 am
Zygna reminds me of the spoiled little brat that we all remember from our childhoods. “you’re not playing my way (stomp, stomp, stomp – you can’t play with my toys)” Zynga it’s not ALL about you! If you would hire some of the geniuses that created these wonderful looking sheep and not be so greedy, maybe, just maybe you wouldn’t get such negative comments from your players. The purpose of a game is to entertain us – you are taking the fun out of the game, unfortunate……..for you. Greed ultimately leads to downfall – remember – Napolean, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Macbeth, I could go on and on but I don’t think I need to.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Thanks Zynga for taking the fun out of the game. How many people are going to wait around patiently for the release of designs and colors one by one. I already have limited time to play. Now that I can’t breed interesting sheep and pigs, I have little motivation to play. Zynga better come out with something new and quickly or they’re going to sink this pig and sheep thing.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:37 am
# LoisLane Says:
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I for one want to know if my credit card number (which I’ve used to purchase FarmCash before) is safe… If someone can hack the system and put “illegal” sheep and pigs into the system, what’s stopping them from getting my credit card number? That would be a much easier hack than putting “Illegal” colors into the system.
@LoisLane, your credit card number is safe because it is given on a secure page and hacking sheep codes is not a secure page.
As many people have said, this is just a game and people should be allowed to play however is fun for them including hacking sheep/pigs, it hurts nobody and I for one spent all my time sharing with all my friends… I would share 20 – 30 a day and only breed about 4 or 5 for myself. Sharing was the fun part of this and now the fun is over. Why in the world would we want to continue with the boring colors? I’m done!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Zynga can just ..”Go Fix themselves!” …I’m done…not only am I blocking the Farmville App…I’m blocking all Zynga games….yee haw liberation from Zynga
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:39 am
THANK YOU ZYNGA!! Intervention working-became too dependent–spent too much time on insidious little games that slowly become addicting. You definitely gave me motivation to break the FV habit. Never intended to go cold turkey (pig, sheep, foal) but it is not going to be that difficult now that you have taken breeding fun away! Insanity on your part, thank you again!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:44 am
NEWS FLASH PEOPLE
You accepted Zynga’s Terms of Service to play this game. Hence… THEY make the rules. Zynga is saying that when the sheep are officially released, you can go back to spending hours and hours breeding sheep that flash, or whatever else these sheep do that has you all riled up.
Zynga has every right to make it difficult for hackers to ruin the game. If some hackers had figured out how to get unlimited Farm Cash or get special Farm Cash only items, you would want Zynga to put a stop to it. But, now, since you can’t wait for something you want, Zynga should just let hackers get away with whatever they do. This time the hackers GAVE you something too, so it’s ok right? My opinion: Zynga should entirely remove all unreleased sheep immediately regardless of how the player obtained them. Every “breeder (LOL)” who has one simply has it replaced with a plain old white or black sheep.
I sincerely hope that this decision by Zynga DOES make a lot of you stop playing this game, because most of you are acting like crack addicts who found out their dealer got arrested. Frankly, a lot of the people posting here need to take a long hard look at how much they are playing this game and ask themselves if it has perhaps “become a problem”. Disappointment I can understand, but this… this is INSANE.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:46 am
think it sucks!
breeding animals now is not fun
So no more breeding animals for me
this really sucks BIG !!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:49 am
Carrie B,
You are such a dolt. Get off your high horse you progressive elitist. It is the way they handled it and the reason they did it. You are just an unhappy person. Look in the mirror.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Ok that sucks, not that I think hacks are good but the colors that Z have created are totally boring! I like my blinking star sheep and my fading color sheep! I have gotten some pretty cool star sheep!! *sigh*
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:52 am
“Again, the intention is to stop the distribution of colors and patterns that are not currently intended but not to punish our players who have acquired these animals legitimately. “- Farmville. Not punishing us? We did nothing wrong? Then why the wording ‘illegal’ or ‘illegitimate’; this indicates wrong-doing when we only adopted legally through the feeds. So since they knew about this for over 1 week and did nothing, that makes Zynga guilty of ‘illegitimate activity.’ They could have posted a note the day after these started showed up saying they would not allow those styles of sheep to breed.
“What FarmVille is doing is trying to prevent continued breeding of animals that they did not intentionally release. ” in other words they were going to release them for big $$ and accidently let them out early for free…your screw up zynga; why punish players? And of course don’t take the blame, but invent some ‘hackers’ to place it on. Zynga can go find people who enjoy making different white sheep (eggshell, offwhite, etc.) but this player is done.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Travc:
I agree with you. Zynga could have easily capitalized on this accidental success by releasing an “official” sheep with a new pattern on the market and players could have purchased it without any hesitation. Most of my neighbors are not aware of the hacker situation and the origin of the illegal sheep, but now they are informed about this incident since Zynga turns off the breeding process. I see this is a bad publicity for Zynga since it often partners with other companies for solicitation. One should be concerned about where all the personal information from internet security point of view as Zynga actually remembers your Pay-Pal account information after a single purchase.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:02 am
To me Zynga are the hackers here…It seems to me that a hacker would want to ruin our fun, not create it. I am done. My plots will be plowed and my farm will be deserted. Packing my bags and moving to Farmtown. Happy farming zynga! You b@stards! : )
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:07 am
thats wrong bc i didnt know n im not hecking farmville its not r fult that u let us then tryto take it i think imdone playin fv……………….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:07 am
Do what you want ZYNGA…I could care less…the pulling of the breeding ability for the illegal sheep & pigs is your way of wanting players to “BUY” the boring animals you have up for purchase…I have already posted notice that I will NO longer breed pigs and sheep and I so far have deleted anything that has to do with that aspect of the game…I am SICK of the GREED by ZYNGA and the babyfied crap that goes along with the game play. Good gravy ZYNGA…yall act like a bunch of spoiled babies that had their candy taken from them and when someone (hackers) walk into the room with new, fun and pretty candy…(groovy pigs and sheep), then suddenly yall start crying foul…maybe you should HIRE the hackers to help create the new quests…at least them it would be fun, colorful and interesting!!! I, in the past have put a LOT of $$ into my game, but I will NOT anymore…I am looking for NON-ZYNGA games to play as we speak cause I’m tired of all the crap, the glitches, the crybaby attitude over IMAGINARY OBJECTS…I mean really…it’s not like we can pack up our farms and take them home with us at the end of the day for display in our own homes…this is MAKE BELIEVE crap people!!! Is ZYNGA really worth all this sh*t!!???
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:09 am
Anyone out there fed up with speding 45 fv$ a month for the UNWITHER CLOCK?????????
WTF????
Why can’t we purchase something outright instead of being robbed and held hostage every month. I say Zynga changes the rules when it suits their own pockets.
I CALL BULLS*%#.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:10 am
I have some of the so called illegal sheep the thing is whats the big deal? Its not like we are doing something wrong! I agree that the flashing sheep make it more interesting and more exciting to see what kind of sheep or pig youre gonna get and will want to make people keep playing farmville! This is ridculous just let us have our unique sheep and pigs! For some of us this is our only enjoyment and why make a big deal? Not all of us have the luxury to buy farm cash and when some of us can buy fv cash these unique items are gone! This is so dumb why dont zynga focus on more important issues like fixing the glitches in our games and stop focusing so much on something as dumb as flashing pigs and sheep!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:11 am
its prob a money thing .. might be loseing money i guess like we dont spend enough anyways ….
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:33 am
it looks like very little activity on FB or even FV. I think FB cut their nose off to spite their face book !!!!! and now out of a billion players maybe 10% is on today ! I guess ” Face Book you win ” !!! of “not being the most popular web site in the world” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:40 am
You know they showed a sheep wth stars on it for their advertisement of the sheep breeding, so can someone tell me why the stars are illegal. My farm is full of the illegal sheep and a few illegal pigs. I had never spent money on Zynga stuff before this breeding of illegal sheep occured, but since then I have spent my fair share because I love the possibilities of what could have been created. Why aren’t we allowed to breed belted pigs? There are belted pigs that have been bought from the market… I understand that someone hacked into the account and changed some data and that is frowned on, but for once I was actually HAPPY with my gaming experience.
Zynga makes no sense what so ever.
Zynga just screwed up royally taking away the option to breed illegal sheep.
Now there will be even less money spent then before. Instead of worrying about illegal sheep and pigs why can’t they fix the current issues? Some of my friends can’t send gifts other can’t recieve gifts. Then there is the constant lag and the constant OOS issues.
Is it really so hard to give the consumer what they want???
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:43 am
Zynga is trying to do whatever they can to push away their loyal players… I finally got pushed too far with mafia wars because they kept closing everything before I could finish.. but they wanted me to spend real money to buy the items I needed to finish.. *&*& that… Now they are doing it with farmville.. Im sorry that was the only reason I ever found to buy your stupid @## game cards.. to get the stupid prizes that I ended up selling because they had no usefulness what so ever.. I guess Im done with this game too.. I guess I only have frontierville left… and knowing the nazi’s… oops I mean zynga.. I will soon be leaving it too
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 11:56 am
I am not sure all these “illegal” sheep came from hackers. There is a program that will allow you to change some of the code that determines the color or pattern of sheep and I imagine that’s where the flashing sheep came from–I know that’s the only way people were able to make demon sheep but those sheep would not breed true.
However, when sheep breeding first started, I lost a lamb and wrote to Zynga and they sent me another one. That lamb grew up into a color changing sheep. It doesn’t change color the way the flasher sheep do; it changes slowly from one color to another, and the colors are not neon but different colors you could get from breeding sheep normally. I never could get it to breed another color changer but if someone else was given the same kind of lamb from Zynga–which means it is totally legal–maybe they were able to breed theirs and started producing color changers.
Since Zynga changed things my original legal color changer doesn’t morph colors unless I refresh the farm but she is a different color each time. I am not going to try breeding her now because I am afraid I might lose her but she did give me some unusual colors over time and she has to be totally legal because Zynga put her in my giftbox.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I got on this morning after collecting potions and bottles and wasted 20 potions and 40 bottles breeding WHITE SHEEP! I’m so sick of Zynga’s controlling issues, the limits, the throttling, the bugs, the tons of collecting, their customer service, their greed, and the BS! I’m done with it. I quit!
And the only way they are going to listen to us is if everyone does the same. As long as everyone keeps playing they are going do keep getting worse and not change a thing.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
sorry to all, but i have not received cool pigs or sheep in anyway shape or form, all i get are the boring ones. spent 30 fv $ on a spotted ram can’t even get a spotted sheep out of him, i am over & done w the breeding thing.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
It really is all about the money. First Zynga comes out and states that people got these sheep/pigs illegally but I found where they are going to be releasing the blinking and star sheep for 30FC soon. Also, if you have noticed the value on the trees have gone form 5FC to 7FC. It is all about the money. Instead of complaining about it, just do not spend any cash on it. Do not buy their cards or buy any FC from the market. How else to show them that we are not all addicted to this game. Sure some people will go out and continue to buy the FC but I personally am done. After the one big sale of 40% off I still have more than enough to keep me afloat for a while. After that i should have everything mastered that I want to and then I will find another game in which I can enjoy. Maybe better yet get back to having a life and not spending the 4 or 5 hours a day i do on my farms.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
One more thing. I think Zynga blamed hackers when it was their own people breeding and sharing with their friends and so on and so forth. I just know for myself summer is getting closer and I would rather be outside anyways. I complain about people not getting out and doing more outside and what do i do, yeah stay inside and play a make believe game.
Stand up for what you all believe in. Do not spend your hard earned money on something that Zynga screwed up and released to us and then they blame it on hackers. If this was a Hacker thing I really do not think that Zynga would be bringing these sheep/pigs out in the market for sale. Hope that clears that up and makes a little bit more sense. I really believe Zynga is just trying to cover up what they screwed up. We all know that they do make a lot of mistakes.
Also, maybe if there are some good hackers out there they can just take Zynga games down for a few days and show Zynga whats what.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
The question is, why Zinga, did not stop illegal Sheep & Pig breeding the first day???? Why they waited so long???Why only now, when people are spending so much money on breeding?Maybe…the smell of money??maybe it’s all ideas Zynga…..anything is possible.The only ones who lose are the players…Unfortunately
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Ok, someone in here posted that Zynga said that they are not getting any complaints about this so it stands. Well I just sent in my complaint and suggest all of you do the same. Here’s what I sent:
“Now all my new sheep are white! What did I do to deserve WHITE SHEEP? These sheep Zynga has declared ‘illegal’ are the only reason I started the breeding thing. Now I’ve just wasted 20 potions and 40 bottles I’ve been saving up on white sheep! I’ve enjoyed the game in the past but in the last few months Zynga has been making it less and less fun to play. I am constantly frustrated with all the collecting I have to do and then being throttled when I collect what I need until I get the message that I’ve reached my limit and to try again tomorrow even though there are plenty of supplies posted for everyone to share.
This was the last straw with me and I don’t plan on coming back. I quit!”
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
I understand the ban. I get it. We can’t breed any more ‘illegal’ sheep from here on out. What I DON’T get is I have also lost the ability to breed my legally obtained sheep as well. (All my sheep whether legal or illegal, were all obtained legally and I had NO idea any of them were illegal, btw.) I tried to breed a ram and a ewe, both purchased with my FV cash, and I STILL end up with a white sheep. REALLY? This is what upsets me the most.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Even my striped and dotted sheep are only producing solid white or black lambs now. I spent 30 FVC on a purple pig, who has spots, and have not been able to get a spotted piglet, just solid purple. And we have a striped LEGAL pig – why can’t we breed stripes? Oh, yeah, because it’s a COIN PIG (Saddleback), not a 30 FVC pig. I know the striped pig and the star sheep will be released eventually (both have appeared on the welcome screen). But who knows how many fewer players will be here for it. I’ve actually had neighbors sending gifts and visiting my farm and buying my crafts since the “illegal” breeding made the game fun again. I guess now we will return to the dustbowl.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
I absolutely hate fv nowo and my 1000 + dollars a year i spend will go to other fun activities. if you dont knowo what ur doing then just dont do it.. i mean wth gives zynga the right to take our money then decide how and what we can do mid game.. im not tollerating any of this crap anymore and will not do anything on fv that requires me to spend anything but coins. WERE ALL TURNING A BUNCH OF IDIOTS INTO MILLIONAIRES.. AND TRUST ME THEY DO NOT CARE ONE BIT ABOUT YOU.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
I agree it is zynga’s fault, and to do away with them now really sucks. I have been able to raise nothing but boring sheep and pigs. That and having i-phone only items is BS. If something is released fore one it should be released for all.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I spent a total of $15.00 US on FV. After seeing how much FC they want for petty little things I swore I would spend no more. The only reason I keep playing is because a friend of mine and myself battle it out to see who can stay ahead of each other. Lower the FC price on your items and maybe you can get more people to buy it. Maybe if everyone that spends real cash on a regular basis would stop purchasing FC for, let’s say, a month then maybe you will see how big a hit FV takes. Maybe even stop all Zynga game purchases for a month. How big a hit do you think your wallets will take, Zynga?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
What a complete load of c**p. I am so bored of Farmville now, I got to level 100 and use the English farm as a dumping ground for stuff I don’t want on my Home farm. At least the sheep were exciting for a couple of weeks trying to get an electric sheep. If I could sell my FV back and give up I probably would!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Let it go FV, god forbid u didn’t make a buck off of every little thing, did it bother u to notice people were actually enjoying the game rather than only the people dishing out real cash having fun??
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Sad cuz I already want to stop playing.. after all the cool sheep i’ve gotten I cant anymroe? LAME zynga
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Not good enough I want to be able to breed the sheep and pigs I currently have on my farm and have them turn out to look like what there supposed to whether that be a colour change or not.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
If zynga has the necessary programming to ‘release’ these type of sheep and are ‘holding off’ for some (dumb) reason – then I guess players can hold off on breeding, which means we won’t need to purchase so much potion for awhile. The sheep Zynga allows to be breed now are unattractive and no much fun. Way to go Zynga. Between this move and the way they are ruining their best game, Frontierville, I think they are the kind of company that if there were an individual would just shoot themselves in the foot.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Looks like no one is breeding on my feed. It is a shame that they have stopped the best part of the game. I was so enjoying the breeding and now it’s just a total disappointment. It’s not the boycott of breeding that has stopped me from breeding ,it’s the outcome of breeding.Ugly stupied looking pigs. I did like the star and dotted sheep but that got old when the flashers came out. Hope they fix their problem soon,until then I’ll be playing wheel of fortune……
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
ILLEGAL sheep and pigs on a FAKE farm?????? WTF
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
why can’t everyone just be appreciative of the sheep they have had?
Zynga knows that they’d upset people… they will eventually all come out again… stop being so rude people its a free game to begin with…. spend your real $$ if you like lol…….. thats your fault for spending real money.
thanks zynga for your FREE game.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
People are having fun for FREE?
UNACCEPTABLE!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I for one will not be spending any more real cash on FV games . I’m done with it and I spent more this month than any month , loved designing sheep and pigs . We put up with so many glitches in the game and can’t even get into our games which makes us lose points harvesting ect. The n they have the nerve to charge 30 Fv dollars for a purple or stripe Pig . Oh my gosh we were getting Easter , St Pat’s and Valentine’s just to name a few, designed sheep for free! Why would we pay for a plain Purple pig, especially when we can not breed with designed ones . seriously thinking of quitting for good , not putting my money into this game any more.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
It’s pathetic how blatantly Zynga is lying to their customers! Illegal sheep and pigs were reverted to their original color? How comes that mine are still on my farm??? And those of my neighbors too?
And didn’t they say a few days ago, they already had stopped the hackers? If so, why do they need to state again that they stopped it? I tell you, because this was a lie too! They stopped it now, but not days ago.
And all these lies is what makes me really angry. I don’t blame Zynga for being hacked, but i blame them for lying straight into the faces of their customers!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
GREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!GREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZYNGA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
oh.. i think too
that the flasher sheep/pigs weren’t released because ZYNGA is professional about their business…
someone leaked out the flashers.. they were UGLY quality lol
maybe everyone should hold their panties before they speak cause zynga will definitely come out with something professional looking lol…….
and its not a fun game if there isn’t anything to look forward to.. like being able to adopt something new everyday. It gives you something to look forward to and makes you appreciate the game more. Makes FV less boring. I think Zynga made the right choice.. they addressed everyone.
What if you were the person who worked for Zynga, someone STOLE your idea and it leaked out before YOU got credit for?????????????????
i’d be a little upset.
so everyone just CHILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL dang.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
i hadnt got any cool sheep yet and i was relaly hoping to get some…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
MAYBE THEY SHOULDNT TAKE SO LONG TO RELEASE THINGS INTERESTING !!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
we have all ready been doing it didn’t hurt nothing ! GOSH IT’S JUST COLOR ! LIKE A COLORING BOOK YOU JUST CHANGE THE COLOR TO MAKE IT PRETTY ! WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL ZYNGA !!! COLOR THAT’S ALL ! BY THE WAY I CAN BUY ALL THE WHITE SHEEP I WANT IN THE MARKET CAUSE THAT’S ALL I BREED NOW ! NOT WORTH PLAYING ANY MORE
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
I for one think that Zynga would do well to hire whoever had started the breeding of these sheep and pigs that everyone has fallen head over heels for. I’m tired of the same sheep over and over again, these new sheep were interesting and had alot more combinations that could be bred from them. I for one had stopped breeding my sheep except for the weekends, when I’d finally have enuf of the stupid Love Potions to use. And the pig breeding doesn’t interest me in the least, there’s no way I’m spending 30fvcash to get a different colored boar, and with only Ossabaw, black, pink pot belly, and strawberry pigs to work with, the results are VERY limited with the free green boar. Thanks but no thanks. I’ll just keep saving up those potions for whenever Zynga decides to add some flavor to their mixes. On the bright side, I’ve made a ton of coins making the potions, everyone is shopping with me now..lmao
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I don’t know why everyone is fired up at Zynga about this. Try being fired up at the ppl who did this illegally and created this mess. Or maybe the ones crying the loudest are the ones who did it illegally to start out with. You were never intended to have them .. so the ones who acquired them from feeds should be thankfull to keep them. And what if they get sold at some point .. no one is forcing you to buy anything. And if and when they do go on the market, you will be able to breed the ones you already have. So what more you want .. you got for free something you weren’t intended to have ever .. and Zynga is at fault because of some cheaters ? Pls .. there is bigger things to worry about ! In all honesty everyone was putting up a fuss about them flashing ones being ugly anyways .. and now you putting up a fuss. Try worrying about things that really matter and get a grip.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Hmm, let me see. I put in a spotted sheep, and another spotted sheep, and I put in 5 potions. I get a ram. I use 10 bottles. I get a weird pattern. cool. I use it, and a spotted ewe, and 5 more potions, and 10 more bottles, and poof, I have a flashing ram. now, somewhere along the line, that is illegal? Well go figure.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
FV was hacked or someone came up with a breeding idea that triggered a release. The “damage??” is done. FV needs to just use a good business practice and allow their players to continue to have fun with their flashing pigs and sheep. The present decision they have made per the flashing sheep and pigs is not good business. If they have discovered hackers then they should remove their illegal sheep and prevent them from ever breeding pigs and sheep or permanently prevent these hacker from playing FV, but allow those of us who obtained flashers from friends continue on our merry way. Punish the offenders but allow those who are innocent to have their fun. Why loose innocent players over this mess? Do the smart thing FV and move forward not backward.
Thanks
Sueluki…..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
flashers are not good quality guys..
let zynga make the tweaks
someone hacked it, and it obviously wasn’t ready to come out because they look ridiculous.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Please understand that most of your neighbors who have these “illegal” animals on their farms did not obtain them through hacks nor or they cheating. There is no need to start a FarmVille witch hunt! The spreading of these unreleased animals was so rampant due to legitimate breeding, sharing, and adopting.
Since so many farmers have these “illegal” animals on their farms in which they obtained through legitimate methods, they will be able to keep them and will not be punished. What FarmVille is doing is trying to prevent continued breeding of animals that they did not intentionally release. They are in the process of patching the original methods (hacks) of how these animals were obtained before they were then bred and shared.
HELLO IN BOTH PARAGRAPHS THE WORD LEGITIMATE SO THEY ARE BITING THEMSELVES IN THE A S S AS IT LOOKS TO ME HOW ARE THEY ILLEGAL IF THEY OBTAINED THEM OR BRED THEM LEGITIMATELY???? PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE THINGS YOU SAY BEFORE YOU SAY THEM ZYNGA CAUSE RIGHT NOW I COULD GIVE A S H I T ABOUT MY FARM… I HOPE EVERYONE BOYCOTTS YOUR SITE!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
WTG Zynga…spoilt all the fun again. How come, if you can stop the illegal breeding so quickly ( as you now have) you left it so long??? Got us hooked huh??? Well, when you eventually decide to release anything worth breeding I wont be buyin. WE ARE NOT YOUR PUPPETS NOR ARE WE YOUR CASH COWS. Wont be bothering to breed anymore POINTLESS!!!!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
For those who don’t know how the other patterns came into game:
Someone spotted thing called “metadata” that FarmVille flash (.swf) game sent to Zynga servers (farmville.com).
Then he figured with different sheeps what all those letters in that metadata means, and found that with letter T was specified patterns.
Plain (1-color) had letter A, hooded (2-color) letter C. So, what does letter B? B does dots. D does splotch, E does stars and F does stripe.
These are the patterns, and obviously Zynga had plans to release patterns one by one over time, so that people who want those patterns would buy first a ram to be able to produce those.
Well, after someone found that sheep can be taken out of sheep pen and replace patterns (as with colors too without spending much time with actual breeding), someone else tried to enter invalid codes for colors, or even value “NaN”.
These illegal color values produced nice side effects, like colorcode of F0 did flashing colors. But they didn’t stick into offspring, so some people tried to work with color codes until they found some codes that were sticked into offspring too.
And also some codes produced some faults, that some people refer as “mask” pattern, which in case is not a pattern, just a fault in the sheep color coding.
Now, everything that can’t be bought from the market, is actually “illegal”.
But Zynga won’t punish those who got illegally originated lambs from someone. To say it short: Player A has cheated (I repeat: CHEATED) and created for example star pattern for his ram. He then breeds some in hope that someone else gets that star pattern. And his friends (probably all) get star patterned sheep or ram. And they continue breeding for themselves and give away.
Now, when Zynga states they are created illegally, people are like “WTF? HOW CAN THEY BE ILLEGAL?!?”. In short, they are illegal because Zynga never published them, yet.
So stop your whining, and think this way: if you can’t get new sheep/pig with fancy pattern from the market or mystery game, it has originally done by some cheating people.
You may call hacked, but most of those “hackers” are just “script kiddies” who only do what they have guide written by some dumbass. They never find anything themselves, they only copy what someone else did before.
And if you really think, you see how you have stolen money from Zynga. Nobody has bought star/splotch/stripe pattern, but they exist and people have spred them. When you see them on the market, you probably think “not worth buying, I already have that”.
Now Zynga will publish new patterns for pigs when they decide is time for them. As they originally planned with sheeps. Some may have different patterns already, those pigs are showing probably only shadow, but when new pattern is released they will show up. And then those can “legally” breed them and give to people, but remember that when you get fancy patterned/colored pig/sheep, it may be (and probably is) originally made with some cheat.
I want only ask one thing from you all: Do you really think cheating is ok?
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
It’s just like in grade school- leave it to one person to mess it up for the rest of the class.
I knew as soon as I saw my neighbors with different pigs than those of other neighbors that we all would get grounded from the fun. We were lucky to be able to breed the ones we have; just be happy that we have those. I’ve been playing this game since the beginning in June of 2009 and have shown my true obsession to this game… and I’ve done it without any cheating. Why must others cheat at this game? In my opinion the reason no one really has as much fun as they did in the beginning of the game is because of the cheaters who just HAD to have what others did not and something that was not available. As much as I hate being grounded from the fun, I think (or I hope) it should teach those who chose to cheat that it doesn’t make the game any more fun. The real screwing that Zynga is doing to their customers/players is the Unwither Clock. It is a way for the company to continue to walk down their red carpet, buy their jets, and eat their caviar on top of expensive crackers. If we BOYCOTT the UNWITHER CLOCK we will be hitting Zynga where it hurts. Their pocket books. The CEO of Zynga is on the Forbes Billionaires Club and that is because of their loyal customers spending 30$FV on Sheep and 55$FV-45$FV on an Unwither Clock; when most of the time Unwither is turned off because FV is usually broken. Although no one is saying we HAVE to spend money but the majority of customers are spending money. With this economy spending money on anything but gas for our cars is ridiculous- but we do it.
I’m glad they nipped this illegal breeding in the bud- it’s time for those who are using the programs to cheat that it’s making the game less fun for those who actually play the game correctly.
Sorry if this isn’t want you wanted to hear…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Oh, forgot something from my writing…
Zynga had done all sheep patterns already and they exist in the game as you all can see.
They only didn’t give any ram out yet that is able to produce those other patterns, thay have only given plain/hooded/dotted (and was the star pattern already on mystery game?).
All it needed, was to change metadata string and specifically one letter to some else pattern code. No much hacking involved, just altering what flash game sends to Zynga servers and refresh to make changes visible.
So just think simple: what haven’t been on the market, is done by cheating.
How hard this can be? Obviously too hard for 99% of players… HUH!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:58 pm
I honestly do NOT think these sheep in question were actual “hacker’s” I am starting to think the odd grainy one’s that are being refered to as hacked are acutally ROUGH DRAFTS Z themselves had on their server’s testing etc and someone jumped the gun and released em too early before final pixel was done on these/ therefore it was easier to just claim “we were Hacked and those sheep are Illegal and they weren’t indended to be released” anyone else remember the Duck Pond mess? someone jumoed the gun and released it way early and it wsn’t suppose to be.
Seriously I do think ALL THESE sheep /pigs were already being tested on server’s when this happened..other wise wth would they intentionally release the breedable PIG PEN’S with the hole like the sheep pen fieasco? why not plug that “hacker hole” before release?? answer is it was intentional.
Zygna CS (no matter how innocent or helpful they thought they were being) in oened this whole can of worms ahumm Sheep via moving player’s HOME SHEEP to their EC farms. by doing this I think it opened awhole can of Zygna sheep codes that they didn’t intend to come out til we had HOME FARM capabilities where we had access to the lantern sheep, disco, scared ewe etc. I think by breeding those sheep it somehow must have inacted some codes that the colors and pattern’s came about. I do know a friend actually breed her own Flasher via breeding brutus or one of her rams w that lantern sheep.
Prob is now they are realizing they lost out on a huge profit of fvc purchase’s due to this problem. now they turned those off. so my question now is.. if those “illegal” sheep have been bred w our reg sheep are our baby’s gonna be bad producer’s due to dna sequence of for exmple daddy was a flasher mom reg baby has flasher possiblities.. or better yet grandparent or one we adopted from Neighbors???
Zygna and Zygna CS blew this whole thing now there’s really now way to actualy contain the situation. pigs should NEVER have been released without that “hole” being plugged before hand. had that been done there would not be any Flasher’s out there. (just our luck if and when these sheep are released, those that have them, wonder how much Z is gonna charge us to reactivate breeding on those?)
just my opinion lol
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
You all need to chill. It’s not like Zynga took all of the sheep that you already had and got rid of them. And all of you whining because “I don’t want to spend more money on sheep to breed patterns that I already have.” guess what? “we release these additional colors or patterns legitimately then players will be able to breed that animal in the appropriate, correct manner.” So, you’ll be able to breed your special sheep again, probly not the “flashers” or “shockers”, but your star and camo sheep will be able to breed again, just wait.
Secondly, all you people complaining because “Zynga’s just trying to get money from us” and “Farmville’s just a money game”, well, guess what? There are actually people that work for Zynga, it’s their job. Maybe it would be nice if they were able to make money for all of their hard work. Wouldn’t it be nice to get paid for your job?
Thirdly, for all of you who complain about spending all of your FarmCash on Potions, Bottles, and other crap for Farmville, give it a break. It was your choice to spend that in the first case. Don’t complain because “Oh, I spent soooo much money on it , and now they’re….”, you know what? Get a life. You were not forced to spend that. The game does not revolve around you spending Farmcash. There is always a way to do stuff besides Farmcash.
And finally, for all of you so pissed because they can’t fix other problems, THEY’RE NOT GOD. They can’t just fix everything in the world that isn’t right. So you know what? Give them a break. They try their best to try to bring an enjoyable game to everyone they can, for FREE. Ever notice that there is no monthly fee to log onto Farmville? Well, that’s Zynga, and they just want you to have fun.
So, get a life people. So what if you’re going to boycott Farmville? You know what? It’ll just help those(like me) that are going to continue to play Farmville. With enough people not playing, it’ll free up bandwidth for the rest of us:).
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
WOW! WFT ZYNGA THE ONLY REASON I STARTED TO PLAY ON MY FARM AGAIN IS BECAUSE OF THE COOL SHEEP THE COLOR CHANGING AND STAR ONE SO F*** ****** ZYNGA
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
I wish someone had sent me a flashing sheep, so many of my connections have them but I can never get one!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Well, I just got a flasher pig yesterday, had no idea they where illegal. But I agree with most of you. Boring after 100. They don’t even give farmville cash after that. Maybe I will take a look at this farmtown. Love farmville, but I think it is wrong how they do the players, not just with the pigs, but not giving any fv dolllars after 100. Know reason to play it any more if you have no where to go.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
You people are insane!!!!!! I can’t believe someone would spend real money on virtual farming and animal breeding. UNPLUG THE COMPUTER AND GO OUTSIDE
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
To everyone on this page bitching about their sheep/pig illegal breeding and the money they’ve spent, what did you do on your farms before breeding? It’s not the be all and end all of farmville. I don’t give a crap about what sheep flashes or what color spots my pig’s got, I enjoy the game as a whole. I don’t need to spend any money on it to enjoy the game either.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
this whole thing is a hot mess all around. but what aggrivates me the most is zyngas pompous attitude. you can clearly see here that people are outraged by this. yes, there are a few on this forum who agree with zynga and a few fighting each other over this forum but MOST are here to rant at zynga because theyre really pissed!! fact is, zynga seems to have delusions of grandeur. they dont give a shiz when their game has constant bugs and problems, they take people’s money for items they dont get, in my case kept my credit card info via fb…really the list goes on and on. but when someone (a hacker or even more possibe, a worker at zynga who leaked the code, what the hell ever) screwed them over—they take it out on their players…because they didnt make their money. and after all of these 500 comments…has there been a more in depth statement issued?? you know zynga, to prove you freakin listen to you gd players!!! why the hell would people continue to put money into a game whos creators dont give two sh*ts about it’s players??? would you go back to a restraunt that continues to have bad service?? it pisses me off they dont respond to us–the players, the masses, the people who cushion their wallets. theyre too good now…really??? im done with this game and its unfortunate because its not the actual game that im tired of—its zynga and their attitude!! and since this is an official farmville forum now…what good is it, other than to put a stop to unreleased items that we all loved which btw were hacked by someone here at fvf??!! and we all know that zyngas forums are bs and controlled and this is the only site we have to speak our mind. fvfreak should pull some strings and put the lil buzz in zyngas ears that they will be bancrupt in a year if they dont give us what the hell we want!!! i hope zyngas happy. they fuct themselves royally.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Well the damn “illegal” colors made the game fun! now we are all bored as hell! I am on strike from Farmville until all the cool colors are released! who they hell wants to make plain white sheep and pigs????? Damn Zynga!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Dear Zynga Execs and FV Development Staff,
I need for you ALL to read my post below:
Your farmville game breeding program hit a facebook app jack pot by tapping into the human traits of curiosity, imagination, persistance, and optimism. I have never seen such an influx of players so excited to see what their match making efforts generated! Considering facebook game player success highly depends on social interaction, a large number of current casual players were getting their friends and family excited about it and additionally becoming around-the-clock players themselves. As you are aware, yes this game is free, and if a person finds it entertaining then it may be worth it to the individual to invest both more time and even money to enhance the entertainment value. Not focussing on the above said fact, allowed your companies new found farmville popularity and additional revenue to commit a mass suicide yesterday, by literally worrying itself to death.
I do not feel you were heavily taking into account the numbers of players who just have farms vs the number of them that were active farmers when you terminated a big money maker yesterday that you ‘had not intended’. Businesses should always be looking foward and not backwards so if you accidentally found a big popularity booster and money generator, then GO WITH IT. In addition please remember that providing entertainment is a form of service, so add to your company policies that the customers are almost always right (especially in their own opinion, which drives your business), make your fans happy if you wish to continue to be successful.
For the benefit of both the millions of INDIVIDUAL players, and your own company I feel the right action would have been to stop the ability to aquire illicit sheep and remove the illegally gotten ones from the game and then stop there. . .
To undo the damage rapidly reinstate former and legal free-for-all sheep and pig breeding programs. Next remove your extremely disapointing bomb of an ‘Issue Update’ from yesterday. Because now in their eyes, by turning around and ‘accusing’ people for having honest fun after your admitted to the initial mistake will simply result in a mulitude of negative or defensive reactions as seen in the mass of personal posts above.
And for next time, think FOWARD before you act. Do not provide and then ‘punish’ (withhold demand) a vast majority paying public for the doings of a minority and an overhead afterthought. ::undo last command button:: !
Best Regards,
-Christine C.L.S.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I have done what everyone else who is upset about this should do: Written to Zynga and let them know my opinion!!
As far as I am concerned, the fun is now over, Zynga could not handle their farmers having fun, farming (to get potions) breeding and swopping offsprings, and the shrieks of delight as our lambs and piglets grew up!!! Maybe we spent too much on bottles and potions? Who knows…
But I am off to harvest my crops, then don’t know, doubt I’ll be back farming again unless Zynga actually listens and gives us farmers what we want: Something to make the game fun and worthwile playing again, something that exites the players!! Hang on… we had that up till yesterday…. the now so-called illegal sheep and pigs (who’d have known my star sheep would even turn out to be an illegal….)
Good thing is: My feed is not cluttered with FV requests, and I have a lot more spare time on my hands, so long farmers!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Well this is truelly BS!!! They are taking all of the fun out of things and I deffinately will not be breeding anything anymore. It is all about money that they are not making from us. It is compariable to the gas prices. I will not be spending anymore of my money at the farmville market. Inflation that is all this is.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
This got a lot of reactions! And the fact that it sucks has pretty much been covered, I can only agree. I would have loved a star sheep, and maybe one of those camouflage patterned ones, and I wish they release them “legally” soon.
However I was kind of relieved to find out that all the crazy-ass sheep weren’t zyngas creation. seriously, the ones that look like they were painted by a 2 year old on crack, i thoght zynga had lost it!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:24 pm
This is Bull, That made it so great, You had to work so hard to get special stuff like that. Made the game so much fun. You had to work and communication with your neighbors to get that cool stuff.. I feel it brought our community much closer together. And now u are taking it away.. That is Bull.. I thought that was the whole point of breading to have so many options??? Anyone that has any of those animals should get a min of 1,000 fv cash per animal, and anyone that spent fv cash for any of those animals should get 5,000 fv cash per animal, for the inconvenience… I’m very mad about this i was so excited about making different sheep’s and pigs and now i don’t think i want to play anymore u took the fun out of it.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:34 pm
i just sold all my sheep and pigs f— you zynga no more z
fv from me i have spent thousands in real cash no more you screwed it for all i had all the flashers in pigs and sheep no more fv for potions ty fv yyou have saved me heaps
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
thank you zynga for this you have saved me lots of cash no more paying for potions tytytytytytyttytyty best move ever
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Perhaps Zynga is turning off the cool colors and patterns until they can HIRE the hackers.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
ZYNGA should go have coffee with BP.
They both screw people by their own faults.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
I am done breeding,,,this is so stupid, this is a site to play games and interact socially with friends, now it has become NOT fun anymore, I looked forward to seeing the different kinds of sheep, I dont have the money to spend on all the NICE stuff they have to buy, so Im done…:(
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Okay, this is ridiculous. Farmville has missed the point and the beauty of breeding. The creativity and fun involved in players just trying to contribute to the fun of the game. This is so depressing. They really need to get a grip by letting this go. It’s like someone saying-you guys are having too much fun. Stop.
Farmville needs to catch up with the demands of its players instead of punishing them. Give us cool sheep to buy and breed and the problem is solved. Do it right away. Stop being killjoys asap.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Hahahaaa. no one breeds from my neighbors, viagra stays hours on the wall… I GOT DOTED RAM FROM MARKET AND IT DOES NOT GIVE ME DOTS… just freaking white sheep… that would be nice if ZYNGA gives me “working doted ram” , or my 30 fvc back. common, be a MAN, do the right thing…
hey freaks, who has the highest level here
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
No more real cash from my house either so i AGREE F*** ZYNGA and farmville if this is how it is then i am done.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
this whole thing reminds me of government. restrictions restrictions restrictions. the whole breeding thing becomes a bust now, because they have taken the fun out of it. i won’t be worrying anymore about love potions then, so the 2 week making them in the pub thing is really a mute issue at this point. ah well, it’s just another day
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
No more money from me, Zynga! You have blown it. By the time you figure out how much money you are losing by doing this, most of us will be gaming elsewhere. Somewhere that treats their customers like they should.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Some ppl really need to get a grip .. and wow spending thousands of dollars .. that is more than sad. If ppl are pouring money into this .. rather than real life necessities .. that’s insane. And the breeding of the flashers being stopped has taken all the fun out of Farmville ? What the hey ???? If that is what you need to have fun .. you have much bigger issues. GET A LIFE!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
What I don’t understand is why they can sell polka dot & star sheep, WHY can’t we even breed those at least! It costs FC for a couple patterns and we cannot use them. HUGE waste of farmville cash!!!!! Those of us who paid good cash for them, should get a REFUND on what we did buy with our hard earned money!!!!!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
YOU CAN’T TELL ME THAT ZYNGA DID NOT RELEASE THESE SHEEP & PIGS, IT MAY HAVE BEEN ACCIDENTLY BUT THEY CERTAINLY DID RELEASE THEM. ONCE THEY FOUND OUT HOW POPULAR THEY WERE & HOW MUCH REAL MONEY THEY COULD MAKE OUT OF THEM THEY PANICED & DECIDED TO USE THE PLOY THAT THEY WERE ILLEGAL.
COME ON ZYNGA WAKE UP TO YOURSELVES, PLAYERS WANT & NEED A LITTLE FUN & EXCITEMENT IN A GAME, WE ARE BORED WITH YOU MUNDANE STUFF. HOW CAN YOU EXPECT US TO PART WITH OUR HARD EARNED DOLLARS FOR PLAIN OLD BORING CRAP. STOP TRYING TO SHUT THE GATE AFTER THE HORSE BOLTED. ADMIT YOU MADE YET ANOTHER STUFFUP & LET US GET ON WITH OUR GAME, YOU WOULD PROBEBLY FIND YOU MAKE MORE MONEY OUT OF US THAT WAY. COME DOWN FROM YOUR IVORY TOWER & LISTEN TO THE REAL PEOPLE FOR ONCE.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Just to clarify:
Zynga coders did not publish any of these star etc pattern sheeps.
There were only some hackers who found out how sheeps pattern can be changed by cheating.
This is 100% fact. Zynga did not leak new patterns out.
Anyone who thinks that flashers etc came from disco etc sheeps have no information about any sheeps. Those old sheeps are basically as white and black sheep, but some of them give some specified color only, there is no old sheeps giving patterns.
First ram that had ability to give pattern, was Brutus.
For more detailed information, here’s one page you can check what it was all about (in other words, how it was possible to cheat new patterns, doesn’t work anymore) http://farmvillepublicacion3.blogspot.com/2011/04/farmville-sheep-color-changing-by-talha.html (this url for demonstration purposes only, do not try to attempt to do this cheat or you may get banned from FarmVille).
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Went in to play Farmville… Then I went out as fast as I went in because there was nothing to do!!! WTH… Makes me not even want to harvest my crops…
Haven’t played all day! When I usually spend 4 hours or more playing…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
the comment below really says it all. I just want to add that its a real shame we *all* me included have spent so much time and money invested in a *game* that we wont get back,. and since its all said and done I wish Zynga would let it be for what it is, harmless fun. for the ones benifiting from these sheep and pigs are just harmless bored people/ and this is just all in fun… for fun…about fun….I wish they would let us have our *fun*…. and as some say, Zynga had to know it was going to go on with the piggies, after all its going on with the sheep..and Zynga isnt out any money, us players are. and I for one think 30 fc for a sheep of any kind is reduculus and still we pay it. why, I don’t know. but we do. I just re read the statements at the top, when the illegal breeding is legal, they will commense breeding again. so that tells me when Zynga learns how to make those kinds to sell, then we can use them again, oh wow… oh well anyways the post below says it all mostly
I wont quit FV but I will quit suporting it with my $$$$.. ty
Therese Hinricksen Says:
Posted on April 26th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
This is about the stupedist thing i have ever seen or heard of… why shut a door that is already open? i personally have spent a lot of money on my sheep & pig breeding… I’m very happy that someone was able to breed me “flashing or color changing” sheep. It just adds a little more excitement to the game. I have shared these animals with many friends (they were all excited to get the animals)! It has just been another way to meet new people & create good will among farmers. Please don’t take this away from us.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
For the last three months there have been a number of problems with the game. I have contacted Zynga Support (listed at the bottom of the Farmville screen) several times. Their responses have been barely literate, sometimes not even mentioning the issue I contacted them about, always telling me to “be patient, we are working on it.” There was one support person named Luis G. who sent me an e-mail so stupid that I was amazed someone actually gave him a keyboard and a salary! Bottom line: Zynga Support is staffed by people who remind me of the guy named “Peggy” on the credit card commercial. Worthless is an understatement. That said, if their “Support” team is so inadequte can you imagine what the “Development” team must be like? It is apparent to me now that the popularity of this game is fluke and not based on any real brain power or talent within their organization. It was novel and new and because of social media it spread like wild fire and grew very quickly. Unfortunately, it’s not run by Bill Gates or anyone approaching his level of intellegence.
Now the issue of “illegal sheep breeding”: What moron would do away with such an obviously popular feature altogether rather than capitalizing on it and broadening it’s fan base? Hummm? Zynga management? Zynga Developers? A bunch of crack heads from a 3rd world country playing like grown up business people? Who knows?
I just know this. They started out big and fast – and they can go out the same way. People are leaving in droves! Very soon, Zynga might throw a party nobody will come to. And they will all be out looking for a new job.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
this is how we feel about the new restrictions on breedinghttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=206329899397769&set=a.202883313075761.50601.100000622812528&type=1&ref=nf
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
I disagree about to call such “hackers” heroes, one of them offered to a friend an unreleased ram for 50 dollars, this is not “sharing”.
And I have the doubt somebody paid for them and yes HE shared them with friends.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
awwwww now i’m to late to get a cool “illegal” sheep
i guess i’ll have to suffer with Brutus clones still…
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
@ Carol, It is people that hack and create these animals. But yes I to am pissed off, I don’t even want to breed anymore and quite frankly play. Its gotten so boring. I was having fun making unique sheep now I don’t give a damn. So UP YOURS ZYNGA
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
“Farmville has taken the most fun I have ever had (breeding super fun sheep and pigs) and gave me butt ugly released ones! I spent close to $200 on love potions to breed these wonderful & fun babies and now it is all over! I have vowed NEVER to play again ( level 103 here ) until FV plays fair and let’s me continue my breeding or refunds me my $$! Thieves!! They came onto my Farm and took away the very sheep I paid real money for! Totally NOT FAIR!!I am not sure there isn’t a Lawsuit somewhere that challenges them when they steal from players who have paid them! If someone hears of a class action suit going, please add my name as I strongly doubt FV will reimburse me for my investment! Afterall, they need my $$ to hire more boring & unimaginative computer graphic techs! Grrrr… I am very angry!”
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
If the “illegal” sheep are not reinstated, I will finally walk away from FarmVille.
Everyone was having the most fun I have seen on FarmVille in some time with breedings and sharing and just playing.
Zynga /FarmVille can say what they will, but the bald faced truth is that fun on this level just isn’t profitable and must be stopped.
As for pigs: I never intended, nor do i intend, to breed pigs. Absolutely no fascination there. Especially when the piglets are cuter and better drawn art than their adult form. Really? Top notch illustration resulting in amature scribbled ..pigs?
Zynga has mastered the art of providing seemingly scrumptious looking confections that hide generous doses of poo inside them.
Illustrated here, with the Sheep and Pigs. And lets not forget the Expensive FC Horses that can be bred but not grown.
I won’t go into the volumious loading and other game issues that should take priority over things like these “illegal” animals. Nobody knew, until this ‘excuse’ was thrown out there.
I can’t feel sorry for all the bandaged feet at Zynga that result from constantly shooting themselves in the foot.
I only feel sorry for my countless neighbors who have had their enjoyment quashed .
Shame.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
illegal and unreleased ?????whats this all about not letting us breed them until they are released ….yes i didnt get my sheep from a hack …yes i wanna breed these sheep so if we cant breed them until you (farmville/zynga) releases them just release them already
geez
easy as that………….. NO??????????
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Dear Zynga,
You just made my decision for me. I quit.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
xD, I rather go play wajas, then go breed sheep. Seriously , what’s the use of breeding without those fancy designs? At least on wajas with a muddy if you tried hard enough you could breed something remotely pretty. Come to think of it. hmmm, breeding dogs -> pretty patterns, breeding sheep-.pretty patterns. Isn’t someone copying someone? Looks like they even copied the cave limit over to farmville as well, but on wajas I can have unlimited amounts of wajas provided I have enough coins (wc) to upgrade my cave to hold them all. Come on Zynga, if you must copy something at least do it right.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Zynga has now taken all the fun we have been having with sheep breeding. If they were ‘illegal’, how did we get them? They admit it was ‘legitimate’. This is the last straw for many of us……sheep breeding, flashers, stars and all brought renewed interest to the game. So many of us are tired of having to ‘build’ useless things constantly……for crappy rewards.
Zynga…….change this rule, or ELSE!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I had 100 flashing, camo, stars & bands sheep.. even got JUST the Stars to flash in 3 colors! Loved playing and bought tons of potions to share almost all with my friends! But when I got 100 sheep and had to delete some…I deleted the super boring ones that I had paid FVC for in the MarketPlace! LOL! Thanks for the heads up Zynga and thanks for saving me from spending anymore $$! I have also stopped playing…Level 103..and I am walking away because Zynga is a Thief! I loved seeing what “Jimmie” was going to come up with, what “Jeanne” was begging for and out-of-the-blue, “Ellen” had a flashing PIG! woohoo! What fun! I laughed so much and it was a great ride! What you did, Zynga is what seems to me to be “ILLEGAL”! You have warped my sheep that I paid you for and what good timing you have… right when we can all get back into our yards and the great outdoors and not miss the play one bit! It was a fun ride, Zynga but you have barfed in my car and it is time for me to get off before it starts stinking even more than YOU do!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
What really sucks is i had crossbred my flashers with various regular sheep and many did not flash now theyre mixed into the herd ive tried breeding about 10 more solid and spotted sheep and all turned up either black or white, It doesnt seem worth the time of gathering up potions and bottles anymore for these plain sheep every time …..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:50 pm
You know I am amazed at some of the people on here attacking each other and tossing insults at each other. I wished people would be adults and think about this stuff. What makes anyone think they can tell someone to “Get a Life”, when you are on here reading peoples post and bashing people. Hmmm… I’m so glad people call tell others what to do by adding “insult to injury”, as they call it. Let people express their frustration and have their say. Bulling a person, or antagonize a flame war is not the way. In simple terms practice what you preach. If you don’t want to be a part of the solution, then perhaps go some places else.
I think what would solve the whole problem is if Zynga would let people continue breeding the sheep they have, and just back off from the whole issue. Regardless!
It’s no hidden secret, they make enough profits above and beyond what normal games do. People that do pay them, pay them more money to play this game then any other game around. Its really what has kept the game around and operating. People that play for free, which I have nothing wrong with either, be glad someone is paying Zynga’s bills for you to enjoy the game.
The problem is, it looks like they didn’t think things out when they started this whole breeding thing.
Now four weeks later they are pulling the plug. They should have done all this 3 days into the sheep breeding. It all started then, and went just as fast as when we saw what happened with the pig breeding. That’s what is wrong, and the real issue here. It’s just poor business practices how they handled it all.
Yet like me and so many… we are the ones responsible for letting them take people for so much. If we would just walk away, there would be no profit in it, and no game to speak of. It would just die just like other things.
Remember this from now on when you have the urge to hand over lots of money to them. Sad but true.
I have always thought they should charge a small monthly fee to play this game and that’s it, and let people have freedom to get all they want, or had to offer from the market for free. Maybe have some rare things just for coins you saved up from game play.
Yet it has become an avenue of a bloated PIG now, or “Cash Cow.” That much is very clear.
Besides, it’s also a social-game and a game where people help each other out, not a selfish one, like it has turned into.
The sheep breeding did bring something to the game that did make it very social again, and opened up a door for people to help each other out more, but for now, that has been shot down, and it’s not just the fault of Hackers either, or casting blame on something silly. It’s the company that runs the game that pulled the plug. They are the ones in control, no matter who they wish to blame it on, or punish. The buck stops with them.
When Zynga sees its profits reduced down to nothing, maybe then they will remember who has been here and helped them become what they are.
Nuff said.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Shove it Zynga. Can’t be bothered breeding anything now. I waited for ages till I finally got a colour changer. Now I can’t even breed it? Think you’ll find you have a huge amount of disgruntled, annoyed players. I suppose that has never bothered Zynga before.We’ve all put up with such a lot of crap with this game. I’m going to clear all the crops off my farms and go get a life. Bye Bye Zynga.
PS Someone needs to start a major Boycott.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Im upset zynga wont let me name my sheep titsmcgee
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:24 pm
Great. I have many flashing star AND dot patterned sheep… I’ve never even received a speeding ticket and now my criminal record is set in stone… FML.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Zynga you have just screwed up your much needed INCOME. I doubt we will be buying game cards to breed boring plain puke and snot colored pig and sheep. I would like to be reimbursed with FV cash for all the money that I have spent on game cards. I wish you could give me back all the sleep I missed from staying up all night chasing down love potion to breed all those neat sheep/pigs. Good night Zynga! And its only 10:30pm and I am headed to bed. I have nothing to do on my farm until my crops grow in another 12hrs! You suck!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=2011788812760#!/event.php?eid=141889435883155&index=1
“Not Playing Z games on Friday April 29th!!”
Boycott ALL Z games and stop spending Cash in order to get our Good Looking Sheep and Pigs back in the breeding process!!
It is worth a try, the worst thing that can happen is that Zynga sees a large drop in their users on Friday and takes notice…..
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
Oh great, people get some free sheeps and now i’ll soon have to pay to have them? I dont think so!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
172-Tracy – Bonus Checker could not be considered a cheat by anyone. It does not claim anything for the player. It simply runs the items that have been on the player’s feed in the previous few hours, or since last run. The player then has to click the items to collect them, and many of them may already have been collected.
As to this argument about patterned sheep and pigs. Well I have quite a lot, collected from the feed, or neighbours. I will still enjoy seeing them on my farm, and when at some point in the future I can breed them again I will.
I do not have any problem with Zynga blocking the breeding of these patterns at the moment. I understand that they became available through illegal actions on the part of someone, probably someone who was a Zynga employee. I think Zynga are in fact being generous in allowing players to keep the patterns and colours they have, they could easily have opted to remove them from all farms.
As to paying Farm Cash for potions or bottles, I really find it incredible that anyone did that. All it needed was a little patience to collect the items. I have bred a lot of sheep since the release of breeding, and have never bought either or those items. I do spend money on Farmville, but would not for something I can have for free simply by waiting a little while.
Content of many posts here – why I wonder do the moderators not take action regarding the content of many posts on FarmVille Freak. This thread contains many examples of posts which contain unpleasant insults and language. It does nothing for the arguments being presented and is totally inappropriate.
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
After I completed how I wanted the English farm to look…and not overload it the way we ‘had to’ for FV needs…I was planning to give up FV. It was getting boring and slow, and costly.
THEN the “illegal” sheep appeared (didn’t know they were at the time!) and my interest peaked again! I went crazy on trying to breed patterns and colors and lights and flashers. FUN again, not stress. Pigs came doing the same before I lost the sheep interest and I’d planned to get back to sheep after I bred what I wanted to get from the pigs…they kept me going. NOW you want to stop them? Forget it…anything less than the excitement we had with these sparkly fun animals is gone, and I sure am not wasting $ on anything! Our gain was your gain. Now our loss is also your loss!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:03 pm
BTW Zynga… a pig with lipstick is STILL a PIG!!
IOW…you still made MONEY!
Plain stupidity on you part! And I’d love to see my potion and bottle $ back!!
Posted on April 27th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
Everyone will whine. Everyone will threaten.
NONE of you will quit. Not one.
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 8:24 am
makes me laugh…..Zynga whining….my farm was one of many that was down 2 days over easter..but did they compensate anyone? A few had bought FVCash and lost it….but farmers have a lil fun with the patterns and they cry foul.. Crazy!!
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 10:52 am
so where’d all the posts since 8:24 this morning go? I had one up.
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 11:25 am
Harley@274. If you wrote on the forum the way you have in this post then it is clear why you have been banned for life. A very wise decision on their part.
Indeed I would specifically ask the moderators here to look at your post and remove it, and consider seriously whether you should be allowed to continue to post here.
I also ask the moderators to consider why others are allowed to post using insulting and inappropriate language – how come this is accepted?
Angela @293 – one example of the above – the way you write is absolutely unacceptable. Make your argument of course but consider the language you use.
Josie@364 – Get him a real animal game then, try Microsoft’s Zoo Tycoon game. Realistic animals, not fantasy ones, and need care that mirrors real care. A great learning experience in a well designed game. No 11 year old should be playing any facebook game, the bottom age limit for facebook is 13.
Laura@478 – Read the posts from Zynga more carefully. They have never said they would take away the ‘illegal’ sheep and pigs, or change them to plain ones. In fact they said clearly that people could keep all they had, as long as they got them from the feed or neighbours and were not responsible for the original hacking of them. All they have done is stop those sheep and pigs being breedable now.
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
I really find it shocking how many people are protesting to keep these STOLEN animals! Get over yourselves, Zynga does not OWE you these pigs and sheep!
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
when zynga will release flashing sheep or pigs when we will die we want it back
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 7:16 pm
HEY FAKING ZYNGA. U NEED TO FIXED YOUR GIFTS. EVERYDAY MOST OF MY GIFTS ITS DISSAPPERING. WHEN MY FRIENDS SEND ME SOME FREE GIFTS. MOST OF THE TIME I OPEN 2 OR 5 GIFTS. AND STILL HAVE TO OPEN 178 FREE GIFTS SUDDENTLY GOES POOPS. DISSAPPERING.. YOU DO THAT SO PEOPLE CAN BUY SOME STUFF IN THE MARKET WHAT EVER THEY NEED. TALKING ABOUT HACKER. YOUR A FAKING HACKER STUPID FAKING BIATCH…. STOP SCAMMING APPL.. UR WORSE THAN CRIMINAL STEALING THEIR ****…. GO TO HELL FAKING OWNER GREEDY . UR WORSE THAN PIG.
Posted on April 28th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
YES . THEY GOT THE LAW OF THIS. IF U PAY THE POTION FOR REAL MONEY SO U CAN BREED THE NICE LAMB AND NICE PIGS COLORS. U CAN GO COPY ALL THE REPORT WHAT IS GOING ON.. AND SEND IT TO THE BUSINESS BUREAU.. ITS THE LAW. THIS IS A FALLS ADVERTISE. WHEN U SAY FREE GAMES FOR THE STARTED SHOULD BE FREE. AND WHEN U SPEND REAL MONEY SHOULD BE DOUBLE SECURITY… AND ZYNGA SHOULD BE USING DOUBLE SECURITY. THINK ABOUT IT. IF THE HACKER HACKED THE SOFTWARE CODE. SO THATS MEANS HACKER CAN HACKED WHO EVER USED THE CREDITS CARDS.. YES FAKING ZYNGA THIS IS CALL FROUD.. AND FALLS ADVERTISEMENT…EVERY BUSINESS THEY SHOULD BE REQUIRED OR GUARANTEED DOUBLE SECURITY THE PERSON STUFF.. I DID COPY AND SEND THIS TO THE BUSINESS BUREAU..IF U GUYS JUST COMPLAIN IN HERE ONLY ZYNGA THEY WILL KEEP THINKING WE GET OVER .. SO IF WAS U GUYS. SEND THE COMPLAIN TO THE BUSINESS BUREAU TOO. SO THIS COMPANY WILL PENALIZED.OR GET PENALTY THE WAY ZYNGA TRICK TO US…
Posted on April 29th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
yah now zynga release the white with purple camo, white with purple stripe, white with purple dots. now its a white with poka dots changing color only poka dot is the one keep changing color..and way ridiculous price for each ram 30fv cash. cause zynga call illegal cause they dont make money for all the different color ram came out and the flasher pigs and ram.. now they try to sell it for higher price.. zynga go shoved to ur ass hole the one u keep making the ram way to much… come on people dont buy to much or way to expensive ram. if u do buy it. u spoiled zynga to make more high price.. so i can tell to u zynga .. hopely u got big time penalty for being false advertise and fraud..
Posted on April 29th, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Well I for one refuse too continue too breed my Sheep. I am also only going on long enough too harvest and help friends. As long as we don’t get too keep the pretty Sheep colors, and Flashing ones, I don’t see any point in continuing with breeding. What is the point of having a Plain Sheep? Sorry they are BORING!!!!!!!!! I personally only came back too Farmville because my friends told me about the Sheep Breeding and how the colors were so unique. Now I don’t see any reason to continue too breed. When they give us the other colors and the Flashing ones back, I will be happy too continue playing on Farmville. Until then I can find other things too do.
Mickey
Posted on April 30th, 2011 at 1:35 am
Not playing until is fixed, we are wasting our money….
Posted on May 1st, 2011 at 11:57 pm
I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve had enough of all this BS from Zynga. I’ve quit and haven’t played it for about 5 days now. I’m not coming back until Zynga stops being a greedy control freak (which is never). I only returned to my farm today to pack everything up and post a sign saying “Sold the farm because I’m tired of Zynga’s BS!!!”
Posted on May 6th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
I am so angry, all I am getting are WHITE sheep!!!!! Who wants to breed two colors, patterns, flashers together to get WHITE! I get too many white sheep! I do not know what man of my gift sheep came out of….. So, if I go to breed them I get too many white. I can’t breed the neat sheep with the eye patch because Zynga says they are illegal or wrong!…. What??? I had no issue before Zynga stepped in and made this declaration.
Maybe if EVERYONE just stops breeding Zynga will wake up!
NO MORE BREEDING UNTIL ZYNGA GETS THE PICTURE!!!
sueluki
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 10:36 am
First of all. I’m so sick & tired of people saying, “it’s just a game people.” Although, technically its is…but for most of us, it’s become a lifestyle. Bar hopping, it’s just a bar, but can turn into a lifestyle. When someone screws up your ‘lifestyle’….then naturally…you would get upset.
Second….I have no more interest in breeding sheep/pigs. When Zynga first used the words “Illegal Sheep”…I got a good laugh. Someone posted on a site, “Illegal on a virtual farm…c’mon!” But at first Zynga seemed that they were going to do nothing about it, but stop the source. That seemed like the right thing to do. But then to actually to stop them from breeding….Zynga…you have gone too far.
Actually, I like the ideas some had earlier of Zynga hiring the hackers that have a more vivid imagination than their own developers. At this point, I think that’s the smartest thing that Zynga could do.
I’m 2 seconds from deleting my farm. Farmville was so much fun, but now….Zynga has so many restrictions that hurts their players, not help them.
Posted on May 7th, 2011 at 9:23 pm
“So what’s currently allowed to breed and what’s not?”…….ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT IS THE EPITOME OF BBBOOORRRIIINNNGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey Zynga! Why not fix the connection problems that have been constant since day one with you guys??? Maybe you need to hire those hackers! They have a FAR better understanding of our wants than you apparently do.
Posted on May 25th, 2011 at 12:56 am
i accept that the nifty sheep that were soooo desirable and as much fun to breed, were released as hacks… or whatever… and zynga felt the need to retake control of the direction of their game.
i do admit that after the informative releases about how zynga would be dealing with these oh-so-much-fun to breed sheep, i just thought… well i am just unexcited about breeding different colors of plain sheep. and i stopped. but hey ho! here came the pigs! i think really that what captures is is the idea of treading upon new ground… all the enthusiasm for sheep that zynga had dampened erupted anew for the (unspoiled) pigs.
i’d been spoiled by those nifty sheep, but the pigs brought me back.
tonight i have read that the accepted colors/patterns of pigs do not mention color changers. omg please tell me that these are not also hacks? i am TIRED of having things taken away from me that i had no idea were illegal… although i do realize that, to zynga, MY perceptions mean not one little whit.l
but hey… this is zynga’s game and none can stop them from making their choices, yes?
what i am feeling objection to is their ‘apparent’ lack of connection with US, their MILLIONS of users, whose expenditures in fvcash put their profits into the astronomical zone!
i do not have issues with paying for the special horses, cows, sheep, etc. it’s all up to us what to buy. what i am coming to have a very SERIOUS issue with is this whirlwind acceleration in new horses, trees, cows… they come out so quickly that there is no time to build our base with the previous release.
it’s clear that after the release of the snow stallion, and the absolute MANIA by players to be able to claim one and start to breed… zynga got it. now we have so many horses coming out that i, as a major and serious horse breeder who loved how happy others were to be able to claim a foal, have not even been able to keep up with breeding all these new horses to be able to provide them for others.
the trees! omg… every day, it seems, there are one or two new ones! i have loved working the trees… enough that i’ve given over a large part of my farm to orchards. same feeling as breeding the horses… folks get excited when something is posted that they cannot get themselves. but has zynga gone too far? how many of us old faithfuls will simply fold and fade? i am not sure how much more i can keep up with but i do not believe that zynga is even aware of folks like myself.
i have adored farm since my beginnings… it was always a game that one could play to success without being forced to buy things. in a sense that hasn’t really changed (unlike a wildlife park i could name wherein one cannot move up without buying every new animal offered). spending my money on farm has been for simple pleasures for me… mostly the horses. but it’s getting so complicated now that i am unsure if i would be welcomed withing the fv municipality anymore, given my feelings.
i suppose that this is a total plea to zynga… to hear us… to love us… and to respect us andthe dollars we spend.
if you would, zynga, please… hear us… don’t fight us… don’t penalize us in any way… most of these leaks came from your own devs… don’t blame us because we all went ‘ooooooooooh.’
i would love to stay active in fv. i just find myself losing some faith.
thankjs foir reading. i do so hope that zynga read it as well.
…saucy michele..
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Posted on May 29th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
I BREED MY THREE PIG AT LAST MISSION YOU RECIEVE A PIGGY IN THE MUD I DID NOT RECIEVE A PIG IN THE MUD PLEASE FIX THIS ERROR AT ONCE AGAIN SUCH AS BEFORE ITS WAS MY CANDY HEART TREE THANK YOU
Posted on May 31st, 2011 at 3:06 am
I did kinda side with Zygna in the beginning……but now…by experiencing the so called dream window and looking at the possiblities that each sheep and pig make…..
….what Zygna has placed there to stop all this crap with the breeding the so called illegal sheep and pigs….
this is all part of there greedy money hungry BS…..it’s all there meant to get you to spend $$$$..hoping and praying that you get one of the possiblilities in the dream window…..but the fact is here people…..YOU AREN’T EVER going to get what’s in those possibilies…no matter how much money you spend….it’s not going to happen…Zygna won’t let it happen..it’s all there to just get you to spend…nothing more…it would be better if we all just walked away and never played again….they aren’t going to fix it…even there own damn sheep that they put in the market don’t work….potions are far few and inbetween, and white sheep need to be taken completely out of the equations……Rams need to pass pattern down 100% of the time
What we had here was working fine til you screwed it up Zygna….a bug my a$$..the only bug that I see right now …is the Zygna company it’s self!!!!!!
Posted on August 20th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Where is a guide that lets us know what pigs breed with what other pigs equals what pig? Are piglets, strawberry, Saddleback worth breeding?